{"product_id":"the-good-die-young-the-verdict-on-henry-kissinger-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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy endures \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRené Rojas\u003c\/b\u003e is a sociologist studying neoliberalism in the Southern Cone. Originally from Chile, he received his PhD from New York University in 2016. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBhaskar Sunkara\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and Editor of \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e, which he launched in 2010 as an undergraduate at George Washington University. He has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Sunkara is also the publisher of \u003ci\u003eCatalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e and the UK-based \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonah Walters\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher at \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e and a doctoral student in geography at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Grandin\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor of history at New York University and a Nation editorial board member, is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Empire of Necessity\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Bancroft Prize; \u003ci\u003eFordlandia\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eEmpire's Workshop; The Last Colonial Massacre; The Blood of Guatemala; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607540207890,"sku":"9781788730303","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d205c36b-b31f-44ed-8090-60605a65a8f3.jpg?v=1732309903","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-good-die-young-the-verdict-on-henry-kissinger-9781788730303","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}