American ideology

The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control

by Jacob Siegel  · 24 Mar 2026  · 348pp  · 103,246 words

distribution. The idea developed downstream of a wave of Soviet enthusiasm for cybernetic concepts. Under Stalin, cybernetics had been banned in Russia as a counterrevolutionary American ideology. But following Stalin’s death in 1953, it rapidly gained adherents within the Soviet nomenklatura. An official Soviet Council on Cybernetics was formed with the

The Cold War: A World History

by Odd Arne Westad  · 4 Sep 2017  · 846pp  · 250,145 words

government-imposed order, it was not difficult to make, for Truman in Europe or for later US administrations elsewhere in the world, in spite of American ideological predilections. Many US representatives in postwar Europe (as well as in postwar Japan) had backgrounds in the United States’ own experiments with state-led initiatives

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.  · 15 Jan 1987

in an Age of Change: The Nixon and Ford Administrations (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1981), R. 3. 5. George C. Lodge, The New American Ideology (New York: Kn-opf, 1976), p.7. 6. North, Structure and Change, p. 49. 7. Roy C. Macridis, Contemporary Political Ideologies: Movements and Regimes (Cambridge

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(June 1984). 336 Select Bibliography Koistinen, Paul A. C. The Military-Industrial Complex: A Historical Perspective. New York: Praeger, 1980. Lodge, George C. The New American Ideology. New York: Knopf, 1976. Navarro, Peter. The Policy Game: How Special Interests and Ideologues Are Stealing America. New York: Wiley, 1984. Palmer, John [L.], and

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin  · 12 Jul 2021  · 314pp  · 88,524 words

, and ultimately was devoured by Castro’s mythology without ever really understanding what was happening.”62 Today, the Times gives voice to a racist, anti-American ideology built on Marxist ideas and tactics, brainwashes our children with lies, and undermines our own country. However, even before the 1619 Project, the media embraced

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen  · 14 Sep 2020  · 486pp  · 150,849 words

diehards and libertarian freaks, the Milton Friedmanites and Ayn Randians and Wall Street Journal ideologues, would never really be allowed to run the show. The American ideological center of gravity was plainly undergoing a rightward shift, but wouldn’t the 1980s just turn out to be some kind of modest course correction

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

by Rick Perlstein  · 1 Jan 2008  · 1,351pp  · 404,177 words

war.” Five years after Lyndon Johnson was elected on a platform of consensus, every conceivable cultural expression fell to one or another side of the American ideological divide. Smart businessmen figured out ways to sell to both sides. The Christmas season’s most brilliant entrepreneur was surely the guy who invented the

Culture works: the political economy of culture

by Richard Maxwell  · 15 Jan 2001  · 268pp  · 112,708 words

, the exigencies of the Cold War brought about a new awareness among U.S. political and economic leaders regarding the role of culture in promoting American ideology both at home and abroad. Faced with the threat of expanding Soviet influence after World War II, the United States found itself in a position

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism

by Anatol Lieven  · 3 May 2010

in their own esteem, are insufferable in their human contacts. —Reinhold Niebuhr2 T he American Thesis has also been called the American Creed and the American Ideology. It is the set of propositions about America which the nation presents to itself and to the outside world: "Americans of all national origins, classes

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way of life. The national fear that those who are obsessed with history produce self-fulfilling prophecies does embody a great folk wisdom."74 The American Ideology, then, like classical Marxism, believes that it is possible to make a sudden "leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom." Or

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American Revolution Thomas Paine), "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." As another illustration of the underlying pervasiveness of the American Ideology, this was also a favorite phrase of 1960s radicals.75 But Kissinger also writes of the need for America in the twenty-first century to

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And here the American Creed and its attendant myths, and the kind of nationalism they support, can constitute serious problems. The intense identification of the American Ideology with the American nation also feeds American national messianism, a belief in the nation's duty to save the world. This belief makes it much

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are thought to be highly debatable assertions, given certain aspects of America's actual historical record. 65 AMERICA RIGHT OR WRONG The effects of the American Ideology and the mating of bureaucracy and sections of academia have run together with wider currents in sections of contemporary academia. These sections have tended to

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others."88 This tendency is much more easily understood if it is seen in part as a particularly florid growth from the soil of the American Ideology and American civic nationalism, fertilized after 1989 by America's triumph over communism. In the 1950s, American commentators such as Louis Hartz and Reinhold Niebuhr

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lead on to ideological politics." He was speaking of the link between scientism and communism, but it is no less true with regard to the American Ideology.93 Thus all too many of the official and semiofficial discussions on the subject of democratization which I have attended in Wash66 THESIS: SPLENDOR AND

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own countries and therefore are understandably anxious to please their benefactors. Of course, all great empires have faced this problem; but the absolutism of the American Ideology, and the international hegemony of liberal democratic ideology among intellectuals around the world, makes the risk especially great in the case of the United States

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" are advanced to take the place both of serious analysis of other political cultures and serious programs of development. In this, the effects of the American Ideology are akin to those of communism, whose proponents also found themselves idealizing communist systems whose real contents bore little resemblance to their public shells. These

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber  · 1 Jan 2007  · 498pp  · 145,708 words

houseboy, attached to a commanding reeducation officer in occupied Japan, uses his post to inflect with subversive Japanese elements and hence ultimately deflect the happy American ideology being inculcated. Even in defeat, Japan conditioned the American culture being imposed on it. By the 1980s, historians like Paul Kennedy were arguing that Japan

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

by Jennifer Carlson  · 2 May 2023  · 279pp  · 100,877 words

“bird hunting conservative” and the “latte liberal.”20 This partisanization of everyday life both reflects and is reinforced by geographical sorting that has increasingly isolated Americans ideologically, a process that began in the 1970s according to journalist Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort.21 Since then, communities within the United States

The Cultural Logic of Computation

by David Golumbia  · 31 Mar 2009  · 268pp  · 109,447 words

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by Timothy Snyder  · 2 Apr 2018

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by Hannah Arendt  · 6 Mar 2018  · 653pp  · 218,559 words

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by Tamara Draut  · 4 Apr 2016  · 255pp  · 75,172 words

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by Timothy Sandefur  · 16 Aug 2010  · 399pp  · 155,913 words

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

by Anne C. Heller  · 27 Oct 2009  · 756pp  · 228,797 words

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by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel  · 3 Oct 2016  · 504pp  · 126,835 words

The Chomsky Reader

by Noam Chomsky  · 11 Sep 1987

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by Benjamin Peters  · 2 Jun 2016  · 518pp  · 107,836 words

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by Bhu Srinivasan  · 25 Sep 2017  · 801pp  · 209,348 words

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by Anne Helen Petersen  · 14 Jan 2021  · 297pp  · 88,890 words

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by John Lewis Gaddis  · 1 Jan 2005  · 392pp  · 106,532 words

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by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt  · 18 Oct 2000  · 353pp  · 355 words

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by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Apr 1999

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by Andrew L. Russell  · 27 Apr 2014  · 675pp  · 141,667 words

The Power Elite

by C. Wright Mills and Alan Wolfe  · 1 Jan 1956  · 568pp  · 174,089 words

The Meritocracy Myth

by Stephen J. McNamee  · 17 Jul 2013  · 440pp  · 108,137 words

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by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt  · 15 Mar 2010

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by Rush Doshi  · 24 Jun 2021  · 816pp  · 191,889 words

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

by Steve Coll  · 29 Mar 2009  · 769pp  · 224,916 words

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins  · 18 May 2020  · 393pp  · 115,178 words

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

by Simon Johnson and James Kwak  · 29 Mar 2010  · 430pp  · 109,064 words

Chomsky on Mis-Education

by Noam Chomsky  · 24 Mar 2000

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

by Thomas Frank  · 15 Mar 2016  · 316pp  · 87,486 words

Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

by Thomas Chatterton Williams  · 4 Aug 2025  · 242pp  · 76,315 words

In the Age of the Smart Machine

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 14 Apr 1988

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by Noam Chomsky  · 7 Apr 2015

The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior  · 24 Apr 2015  · 172pp  · 48,747 words

The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food

by Lizzie Collingham  · 1 Jan 2011  · 927pp  · 236,812 words

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn  · 2 Jan 1977  · 913pp  · 299,770 words

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 27 Sep 2011  · 443pp  · 112,800 words

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Friedman  · 30 Jul 2008  · 278pp  · 88,711 words

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

by Annalee Newitz  · 3 Jun 2024  · 251pp  · 68,713 words

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

by Rachel Sherman  · 21 Aug 2017  · 360pp  · 113,429 words

Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

by Helaine Olen  · 27 Dec 2012  · 375pp  · 105,067 words

Suburban Nation

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck  · 14 Sep 2010  · 321pp  · 85,267 words

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

by Max Boot  · 9 Jan 2018  · 972pp  · 259,764 words

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope

by John A. Allison  · 20 Sep 2012  · 348pp  · 99,383 words

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

by Charles R. Morris  · 1 Jan 2012  · 456pp  · 123,534 words

Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America

by Giles Slade  · 14 Apr 2006  · 384pp  · 89,250 words

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 1 Nov 2012

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

by Jon Gertner  · 10 Jun 2019  · 488pp  · 145,950 words

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by James Gleick  · 1 Jan 1992  · 795pp  · 215,529 words