The Cost of Empire

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010

As the 2008 election approaches, we’ll be asking “Is there an American Empire?” Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, professor emeritus at the University of San Diego and the author of Blowback joins us for the first of several conversations on the topic and to discuss his latest book, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Metropolitan Books, 2007).

Nemesis is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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