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The American Empire Project is a book series that deals with imperialist and exceptionalist tendencies in US foreign policy in the early 21st century. The series is published by Metropolitan Books and includes contributions by such notable American thinkers and authors as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson and Andrew Bacevich. The project's goal is to critique what the authors consider the imperial ambitions of the United States and to explore viable alternatives for foreign policy. [1]

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The American Empire Project was founded by Tom Engelhardt and Steven Fraser [2] and started publication in 2004. It includes revised or reprinted editions of older books, as well as new books published for the first time. [3]

American Empire Project book list

A partial list of books in the project: [4] [5]

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