Twilight Of Empire: Responses To Occupation

by Mark Levine, Howard Zinn, Viggo Mortensen (Editor)

Activists, ambassadors, and award-winning journalists offer their incisive analysis of the American occupation of Iraq in this timely collection of essays, featuring the arresting photography of Lynsey Addario. Topics include American economic interests in the war, the mainstream media coverage that made it politically feasible, escalating abuse of Muslim women by both American troops and an increasingly fundamentalist Middle East citizenry, the profiteering of multinationals like Halliburton and Bechtel, and more. A bevy of contributors includes Medea Benjamin, Kristina Borjesson, Amy Goodman, Amir Hussain, Naomi Klein, Mark LeVine, Yanar Mohammed, Viggo Mortensen, and Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Includes color photos throughout.

Genres: Politics, History, Nonfiction, Art, Essays

130 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Tamra]

This was another one of those books that I felt was a great idea, but didn't quite work for me. There are wide range of essays, from the academic to the political to the personal, and some photography and poetry. A couple of the essays (Howard Zinn and Naomi Klein) I had read in other places, and the rest were good, but didn't inflame my passions the way the subject usually does. It may just be that my outrage level with the Bush Administration is so high all the time that I can't quite put these thoughtful essays in context quite yet.

What I did love about this book was the way that it was put together. This may be an incredibly geeky reaction but the layout and binding are wonderful and the beauty and care with which it was created heightens the horror and inanity of the subject matter. The book just demands to be picked up and looked through. Maybe we should leave a bunch lying around the White House and Congress...

[Jodie]

shamless self serving...the book that holds my blogs from the july 03 trip to Iraq.