| The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives Contributor(s): Turse, Nick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805089195 ISBN-13: 9780805089196 Publisher: Metropolitan Books OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Conspiracy Theories - History | Military - United States - History | United States - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 338.473 |
| LCCN: 2007032959 |
| Series: American Empire Project |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 8" (0.70 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fascinating, no matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum.--Wired Now in paperback, a stunning breakdown of the modern military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. He investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with Marvel Comics and NASCAR. Similarly disturbing is the way in which the military, desperate for fresh recruits, has tapped into the culture of cool by making friends on MySpace. A striking vision of this brave new world of remote-controlled rats and super-soldiers who need no sleep, The Complex will change our understanding of the militarization of America. We are a long way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is the essential book for understanding its twenty-first-century progeny. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turse, Nick: - Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the author of The Complex and the research director for the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Nation. Turse's investigations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam have gained him a Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He lives near New York City. |