Nemesis The Last Days of the American Republic

February 2nd, 2007 at 18:48 Björn Hallberg

Chalmers Johnson’s latest creation, “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic”, is hot off the presses and should arrive in bookstores around the world any day now. Needless to say, this much anticipated and final piece of the trilogy deals primarily with the cost and consequences of imperial overstretch. Few people in the US have the honesty, strength of character and desire for serious change that Johnson possesses.

Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis on the Imperial Premises

American Empire Project

History tells us that one of the most unstable political combinations is a country — like the United States today — that tries to be a domestic democracy and a foreign imperialist. Why this is so can be a very abstract subject. Perhaps the best way to offer my thoughts on this is to say a few words about my new book, Nemesis, and explain why I gave it the subtitle, “The Last Days of the American Republic.” Nemesis is the third book to have grown out of my research over the past eight years. I never set out to write a trilogy on our increasingly endangered democracy, but as I kept stumbling on ever more evidence of the legacy of the imperialist pressures we put on many other countries as well as the nature and size of our military empire, one book led to another.

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