{"product_id":"9781788730303","title":"The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone.\"\u003cbr\u003e–Sophia Nguyen, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy endures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, then Henry Kissinger is the ghoul haunting its hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive rounds of growing pains. For multiple generations of anti-war activists, Kissinger personified the depravity of the American war machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world Kissinger wrought is the world we live in, where ideal investment conditions are generated from the barrel of a gun. Today, global capitalism and United States hegemony are underwritten by the most powerful military ever devised. Any political vision worth fighting for must promise an end to the cycle of never-ending wars afflicting the world in the twenty-first century. And breaking that cycle means placing the twin evils of capitalism and imperialism in our crosshairs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, \u003ci\u003eJacobin \u003c\/i\u003efollows Kissinger’s fiery trajectory around the world — not because he was evil incarnate, but because he, more than any other public figure, illustrates the links between capitalism, empire, and the feedback loop of endless war-making that still plagues us today.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370573893693,"sku":"9781788730303","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781788730303_p0.jpg?v=1771565526","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781788730303","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}