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not_frank_not_ever's review
3.0
If you’ve read one Chomsky book on history/media criticism/politics/whatever, you’ve more or less read them all, but it’s always good to refresh your understanding of the U.S. as a rotten hellhole that is almost entirely beyond redemption. I will say, though, that I was expecting a little more of a focus on the titular “rogue state,” but that concept is largely abandoned after the first half of the book.
rschmidt7's review against another edition
2.0
Can be summarized in two words: "America bad."
Does not actually discuss rogue states as the title implies. It simply spends 300+ pages painting America as the sole rogue state in the world. A repetitive bore.
Does not actually discuss rogue states as the title implies. It simply spends 300+ pages painting America as the sole rogue state in the world. A repetitive bore.
jpowerj's review against another edition
4.0
Pretty good, although I would say it (in large part) recapitulates a lot of material from his other books. I guess I'm starting to discover a "tree" of material in Chomsky's work, where the roots tend to lie in his Z Magazine articles and public speeches, which are then adapted with (importantly) references for many of these books. I'm sort of hoping to read more of the root material from here on out, since it does get a bit tedious identifying and skipping over the passages that draw directly from prior material that I've already read... For example, it seems like "A New Generation Draws The Line" is cited a lot in this and other books, so perhaps that's a good next choice.