American Power and the New Mandarins

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American Power and the New Mandarins is a book by the US academic Noam Chomsky. It was his first political book and sets out in detail his opposition to the Vietnam War.

He develops the arguments laid out in The Responsibility of Intellectuals that the American intellectual and technical class, in Universities and in government (the New Mandarins) bear major responsibility for the atrocities perpetrated by the United States in Vietnam.

He also argues that US policy in Vietnam was largely successful. In Chomsky's view US policy was to destroy the nationalist movements in the South Vietnamese peasantry rather than to defend south Vietnam from North Vietnamese aggression. He holds that the former was accomplished rather successfully even if at the expense of the latter.

Noam Chomsky
Bibliography (incomplete)
Linguistics: Syntactic Structures (1957) • Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) • The Sound Pattern of English (1968) • The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1975) • Lectures on Government and Binding (1981) • The Minimalist Program (1995)
Politics: The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) • American Power and the New Mandarins • Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship • The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (1983) • Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward Herman, 1988) • Necessary Illusions (1989) • Deterring Democracy (1992) • Class Warfare (1996) • Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (2003) • Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2006)
Filmography
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) • Last Party 2000 (2001) • Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002) • Distorted Morality — America's War On Terror? (2003) • Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (TV, 2003) • The Corporation (2003) • Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004)
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