{"product_id":"the-good-die-young-isbn-9781788730303","title":"The Good Die Young","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.Preface - \u003ci\u003eRené Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Jonah Walters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: To Die at the Right Time - \u003ci\u003eGreg Grandin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmericas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Kissinger and the South American Revolutions - \u003ci\u003eAldo Marchesi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Kissinger in Chile - \u003ci\u003eRené Rojas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Kissinger in Argentina - \u003ci\u003eLeandro Morgenfeld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Kissinger in Central America - \u003ci\u003eHilary Goodfriend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEurope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kissinger in Cyprus - \u003ci\u003eLeandros Fischer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMiddle East and Africa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kissinger in Angola - \u003ci\u003ePiero Gleijeses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Kissinger in South Africa - \u003ci\u003eGerald Horne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Kissinger in Western Sahara - \u003ci\u003eAubrey Bloomfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Kissinger in the Gulf - \u003ci\u003eChip Gibbons\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAsia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Kissinger in East Pakistan\/Bangladesh - \u003ci\u003eMukhtar Mirjan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Kissinger in East Timor - \u003ci\u003eAlex de Jong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Kissinger in Cambodia - \u003ci\u003eBrett S. Morris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Kissinger in Vietnam and China - \u003ci\u003eAn Interview with Carolyn Eisenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. From the War Room to Wall Street - \u003ci\u003eChristy Thornton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\"Among all this catharsis, no one could surpass the 'unbeatable levels of hater' reached by the lefty publishers \u003ci\u003eJacobin \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and Verso Books...[\u003ci\u003eThe Good Die Young\u003c\/i\u003e] features essays by celebrated scholars like Gerald Horne and Carolyn Eisenberg on the wide-spanning breadth of Kissinger's noxious foreign-policy legacy and the areas of the world still hurting thanks to his time in power.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nitish Pahwa, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone, opening with an introduction by Yale professor Greg Grandin that explores how Kissinger's intellectual and professional trajectory unfolded across presidential administrations and in parallel with American power at large.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sophia Nguyen, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303613386981,"sku":"NP9781788730303","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788730303.jpg?v=1767739588","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-good-die-young-isbn-9781788730303","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}