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The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World |  | Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
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Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 15127
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0452289572
Dewey Decimal Number: 337.73
EAN: 9780452289574
ASIN: 0452289572
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former role as an "economic hit man" in the international corporate skulduggery of a de facto American Empire. Now Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world, drawing on interviews to examine the current geopolitical crisis, and providing a compassionate plan to reimagine our world.
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 Now we know September 8, 2009
Omar Abdelrahman (Miami, FL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Democrats or Republicans....It doesn't matter. If you want to know who controls the world then you should read this, along with Stephen Kinzer's "Overthrow". Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Perkins has done it again August 14, 2009
Daniel Cox (Madison, Wisconsin)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the real history of the US that you dont hear about in high school history courses
 self-promotional racist fantasy July 28, 2009
Book Lover (Central, MA USA)
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
I think Perkins has concocted a racist fantasy that's nothing more than self-promotion based on innuendo. His book lacks substance, credibility and basic editing. There are no footnotes, no bibliography, no sources listed that can be fact-checked. I doubt Perkins was ever in a position that would have put him in contact with the business or government information in his "hit man" book, as with facts and insider knowledge lacking in his writing, the reader has to assume he inflated his position in business and elsewhere. What comes across is that he was an ordinary pencil pusher who had an oversees job for a short time, that he had an eye for the ladies (and what did his wife think of that?), has been using visits with "indigenous" people for his own purposes, purposes that have nothing to do with helping them any more than the America he vilifies. Perkins is American, by the way. The book's viewpoint presents the author as emotionally confused, a mix of eliticism and self-rejection, with an apparent intention to hook others into his confusion. One can't imagine who might take him seriously - young people possibly, as they haven't had enough experience to know better? Most will see his book for what it is - self-promotional fantasy, poorly done at that.
His use of the word "indigenous" is nothing but racism in disguise as it divides the world into people who are indigenous and non-indigenous. From Perkins' book, by the word indigenous he means brown people and that non-indigenous people are white people. His viewpoint toward indigenous people is racist and eliticist, regarding them as helpless, backward people who are easy pawns for white Americans, without the will or ability to take care of themselves. His viewpoint toward his own race and country is self-rejecting and an attempt to get white people and Americans to reject themselves. Where does Perkins imagine white people come from - Mars? Perkins is white, by the way. All humans are indigenous. Humans have been mixing it up since there have been human beings, and we have all risen up from this soil called Earth, so there's no such thing as a pure race. We are all indigenous. The supposedly helpless indigenous people in Ecuador who figure in his writing are well-known for their having risen up and deposed a number of their country's presidents. Helpless? Hardly. Both Americans and white people have accomplished some of the greatest accomplishments in human history. I think that's something for pride, not self-rejection. They're not the only people with such accomplishments, but they're right up there, and I think freedom is one of them.
On the economic note, does Perkins imagine that European corporations that have been seeking to privatize water rights in South America, Middle Easterners, South Americans themselves, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, etc. have no stakes in the global game of resource trading, only North Americans? Doesn't he read? While denigrating capitalism, Perkins is most surely a capitalist himself. I think that's a good thing. Even Soviet Russia learned that Communism doesn't work.
The Secret History of the American Empire May 28, 2009
Stephen Krempl (Issaquah, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
John Perkins does a fabulous job of providing details to his first book "Confessions of an economic hit man". Even if you have not read his first book this is a great read by itself. It surely gives everyone an inside view of how things possibly work(if you are a skeptic)in the larger context of understanding global deals amongst nations. This should be a mandatory read and discussion for every student taking business, economics, and government.
Amazing book April 25, 2009
Camellia A. May (Houston, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thought-provoking sequel to Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Don't read if you want to maintain your ideas of good/bad, black/white in today's world.
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