| PRETENSIONS TO EMPIRE Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration Lewis Lapham New York: The New Press, 2006 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-59558-112-9 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-59558-112-X | 288pp. | HC | $24.95 | |
| Page 44: | "Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and lately a prominent front man for the product of American empire, found comfort in an opinion poll showing 60 percent of the American electorate accepting the lie about Iraq's alliance with al Qaeda, and therefore an accessory to the crime of 9/11." |
| Missing word: S/B "therefore being an accessory". |
| Page 48: | "Incapable of managing an economy that it could only prey upon, 'the money power' and its hired politicians consigned the arrangement..." |
| Number error: S/B "that they could". |
| Page 50: | "Walter Karp died in 1989, at the age of fifty of wounds inflicted by clumsy doctors in a careless hospital..." |
| Missing comma: S/B "at the age of fifty, of wounds". |
| Page 137: | "What the government grasps, the government seeks to keep and hold, choosing to forget that the health and well-being of the American democracy depends less on the swagger of its police forces than on the capacity of its individual citizens to muster the strength of their own thought." |
| Number error: S/B "depend". |
| Page 149: | "Among the inmates held at Guantánamo Bay for nearly three years, only four have been formally charged with a crime, apparently no more than twelve or maybe twenty guilty of some sort of a connection to al Qaeda." |
| Missing verb: S/B "no more than twelve or maybe twenty are guilty". |
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