With the election of George W. Bush in November 2000, America's right wing implemented a radical change in the way that the country wields its accumulated power. The Empire Builders is the comprehensive, untold story of the group of savvy political players who have een refining an imperial vision of the United States for the last five decades and have now come into their own. Foreign policy expert Tom Barry shows how men like William Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz worked to forge a new coalition of militarists, defense and energy corporations, social conservatives, Christian fundamentalists, and neoconservative intellectuals, all bent on sweeping away the last remnants of the liberal establishment. He explores the roots of their unilateral ideology and moral certitude and demonstrates that long before they rose to prominence, these men were practiced in the art of fear-mongering to mobilize popular support for their aims. And although the empire builders have persuaded the nation of their super-patriotism, Barry argues that they are in fact undermining the principles of democracy. An indispensable who's who, The Empire Builders sheds new light upon a small cluster of people who once dreamed of an American empire and are now running one.
- ISBN10 0805074015
- ISBN13 9780805074017
- Publish Date 8 July 2004
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 23 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Imprint Metropolitan Books (imprint of Henry Holt & Company)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English