Abuse of Power

by Theodore Draper

"Mr. Draper believes that recent years have seen the suppression of political by military instrumentalities in the conduct of American foreign policy. After an opening chapter which briefly traces this process in two smaller instances - Cuba and the Dominican Republic - he devotes the rest of this book to a painstaking inquiry which seeks to dissolve the confusion that still envelops the story of our presence in Vietnam."

Genres: Politics

244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Theodore H. "Ted" Draper was an American historian and political writer. Draper is best known for the 14 books he completed during his life, including work regarded as seminal on the formative period of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution, and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award for Nonacademically Affiliated Historians from the American Historical Association.

Reviews

[Seán · Rating 4 out of 5]

If one just switches a few placenames in certain passages, and Bush for Johnson, Draper's excellently-sourced and masterfully-written book reads like a contemporary account of the present American misadventure/clusterfuck in Iraq.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still relevant today, given the continuous abuse of power against smaller countries. US against Vietnam as Draper wrote about, replace than with Russia against Ukraine today. Both wars were based on a false premise.