Books like The sorrows of empire by Chalmers A. Johnson

Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry into World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolationist factions as represented by the government, in the press, and on the streets.

James Carroll’s *Crusade* is a collection of critical columns that confront the Bush administration’s war on terror, Iraq policy, and faith‑based foreign agenda, offering moral and historical scrutiny of U.S. military imperialism.

Michael Parenti examines the causes of 9/11, critiquing U.S. policy, globalization, and religious radicalism, and explores who benefits and who suffers from the post‑Attack era.

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics? These are the questions taken up in this compelling and original book. In this closely argued and clearly written book, David Harvey, one of the leading social theorists of his generation, builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US policies and politics. The compulsions behind the projection of US power on the world as a "new imperialism" are here, for the first time, laid bare for all to see.