Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire Book

An honest and unflinching look at the final phase of the American empire, and the sources of our decline. The Twilight of American Culture appeared in 2000 like a thunderbolt, warning that America's corporate culture and rampant materialism would set off an international counter-response. In his new work, Morris Berman discusses the coming collapse of the American economy, the erosion of democratic ideals, and the emergence of a "seamless propaganda machine" that has destroyed popular discourse to the point that we now dwell in a miasma of propagandistic fog. It is, he argues, the specific details of the way we live--our values and daily behavior--that have brought about this state of affairs, from which there can be no return. "Dark Ages America is a stunner. Berman has put together the most comprehensive critique of how far out on the precipice we stand that I have yet seen. The repeal of Bretton Woods and ensuing devastation of the world economy by finance capitalism plays out like Gibbons' great work on Rome. He is relentless in his analysis--and we ignore what he writes at our peril. Maybe it is too late to turn back, but Berman's book draws on commentaries left and right to instruct us on surviving the fall." --Lloyd Gardner, Research Professor of History, Rutgers UniversityRead More