So John Perkins has got the Economic Hit Man/Global Corruption Book Market pretty much monopolized in much the same way that Tim O’Brien has the Viet Nam Book Market and Christopher Hitchens is trying to capture the Athiest Book Market. (Though Dennis Johnson is sure giving O’Brien a run for his money, isn’t he?)

Before Perkins wrote The Secret History of the American Empire and A Game as Old as Empire, he wrote Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

My Girlfriend recently read it and here are a few things she blurted out while reading it:

“Mildly interesting.”
“Bad writer.”
“Self-righteous pandering.”
“A lot of fluff.”
“Too contrived, too much paraphrasing.”
“‘After-school special’ message throughout entire book.”
“Interesting in that same process is used in every country; annoyingly repetitive but that’s the tactic.”
“Sprinklings of history.”
“Contains meaningless and cursory minor characters.”
“I think he’s used the phrase, ‘pound of flesh’ twenty times.”

Unfortunately, I’m afraid that the State Department would have to agree with my Girlfriend’s less than enthusiastic review.

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