Books On American Imperialism?

[Optiow]

I will be doing a project in English class soon, and it needs to be about how literature expresses events. I am wanting to talk about America and their role in the Middle East (eg. arming Saddam and the Taliban etc.) which I can easily talk about, but I need books to back it up because it is about literature. Book talking about their attitues to North Korea and Cuba will not be amiss too.

I am really looking for some good books that tell the truth about the US in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel and all that. I will use Pilger, Chomsky, Hekmat and Darwish for the backbone, and I plan to insult Bush's autobiography. But I am in need of still more texts, and I am sure you guys all know some.

Any books are fine, but if possible I am wanting not just non-fiction, but also maybe a fiction story if it exists?

Thank guys.

[socialistjustin]

Hegemony or Survival by Chomsky was the first book I ever read on the subject. Great book.



Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer takes people from our involvement in Hawaii all the way to Iraq. Really easy read as well.

[Rocky Rococo]

The classic and perpetual venue for US imperialism has been in Latin America. A couple worthwhile texts in that regard:

Empire's Workshop (http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Workshop-America-United-Imperialism/dp/0805083235)

Bitter Fruit (http://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Fruit-American-Guatemala-Rockefeller/dp/067401930X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316327058&sr=1-1)

[syndicat]

worth reading:

Michael Parenti, Against Empire
William Blum, Rogue State
Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival?
David Harvey, The New Imperialism

[graymouser]

syndicat's list is a good start. I wasn't as impressed by Harvey's New Imperialism, because he gets very heavily into his idiosyncratic discussion of accumulation, but the rest are the basics of a modern anti-imperialist viewpoint.

Bill Blum is great, and I'd strongly recommend picking up his Killing Hope which is a well documented series of studies on US interventions after World War II.

Two other books I'd think about are Eric Toussaint's Your Money Or Your Life and Chomsky's Profit Over People. Both do a good job of looking at globalization and the economic side of imperialism.