Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II - Hardcover

'Far and away the best book on the topic.' - Noam Chomsky 'I enjoyed it immensely.' - Gore Vidal 'The single most useful summary of CIA history.' - John Stockwell, former CIA officer and author ' Each chapter I read makes me more and more angry.' - Helen Caldicott 'A very useful piece of work, daunting in scope, important.' - Thomas Powers, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist 'A very valuable book. The research and organization are extremely impressive.' - A.J. Langguth, author and former New York Times bureau chief 'I am impressed. It is a valuable contribution.' - Ramsey Clark, former Attorney-General of the United States 'Blum has performed a very important service in collecting this information in one place, and the documentation is praiseworthy.' - Teresa Pelton Johnson, Assistant Managing Editor, International Security, Harvard University 'A marvelous job of bringing together a lot of loose ends from many sources.' - Philip Agee, former CIA officer and author 'I bought several more copies to circulate to friends with the hope of shedding new light and understanding on their political outlooks.' - Oliver Stone, film director 'A valuable reference for anyone interested in the conduct of US foreign policy.' - Choice (American Library Association)

In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.