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About the book: for reasons of state chomskys second major collection of political writings, following his pathbreaking american power and the new mandarins an essential record of chomskys political and social thought as it was sharpened on the upheavals in domestic and international affairs of the early 1970s, for reasons of state is a major addition to the intellectual history of the vietnam era it includes articles on the war in vietnam and the wider war in laos and cambodia, an extensive dissection of the pentagon papers, reflections on the role of force in international affairs, essays on civil disobedience and the role of the university, and a now-classic introduction to anarchism these contributions reveal very different facets of chomskys powers as a thinker, from his uncanny ability to join abstract philosophical considerations with the concrete political realities of his time, to his singular capacity to mount withering, fact-based critiques of american foreign policy about t

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