Intervention and Revolution

by Richard J. Barnet

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452008395
• ISBN13: 9780452008397
• Release Date: October 1980
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Sharp Book

A sharp little book that explains much about the American foreign policy path after the Second World War. It helps to have a familarity with the events which the book deals but it is not strictly necessary. The book does have a liberal slant, which is to be expected since the author co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies. But slant is not necessarily bias, and it does not detract from the overall analysis. Highly recommended for those interested in History, Public Policy and Political Science.

From The Inside of the Dust Jacket

In The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross, published in 1970, biblical scholar John M. Allegro wove the results of more than fourteen years of painstaking research into aa theory that Christianity is based on an ancient fertility mythology; that the early Christians were members of a drug cult, worshippers of the sacred mushrooms, Amanita muscaria; that The Bible and especially the New Testament, was an intricately contrived cover story designed to perpetuate the names and incantations of the illegal cult; that the legend of Jesus is simply that -- a legend. Such a theory, if true would seem to strike at the very heart of Western philosophy and ethics; small wonder that Mr. Allegro's book aroused passionate feelings, much as Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds of Collision did nearly twenty-five years ago(1945). The validity of the Bible, the status of the Church, the moral foundations of our thought and institutions for the past 2000 years -- all are called into question if Mr. Allegro's argument is to be accepted. In The End of a Road Mr. Allegro assumes the correctness of his theory and proceeds to build upon the destruction it must inevitably occasion. The result is a frest concept of humanism strong enough to compensate for the lost faith and capable, through reason and technology, of leading mankind down a broader and better road to a more satisfying future. Reeducation, self-disipline, courage and honesty will be required. This companion volume to a startling, disturbing book is reassuring affirmation of a man's ability to transcend his fears and fashion his own destiny.