The Myth of American Idealism

Noam Chomsky has been arguing for decades that American foreign policy represents a fundamental betrayal of the ideals the country claims to embody — its military interventions, its support for authoritarian regimes, its rhetoric of freedom versus the reality of strategic interest. The Myth of American Idealism, co-written with André Vltchek, gathers his most essential arguments about American power in the world since 1945, presented with the rigour and the implacable logic that have made him one of the most widely read political thinkers of the twentieth century. Published by Penguin.