Negative Positive
Title: Is this fact or fiction?
Review: I absolutely and totally agree with Parenti's view of the American empire but this book does nothing to clarify or validate the viewpoint. It is nothing but pulp. He mentions the US government/corporation attempts to take over countries in South America around the early 1900's. True. He also mentions the American and European interference in the Middle Eastern oil producing countries after WWII. True. The problem is he talks about it almost as little as I just did. He thinly mentions it in passing to impress the reader with his knowledge. The rest of the book reads like a fictional bashing of America with no basses in reality. As I said I agree with a lot of Parenti's ideas but I bought the book to read a documented, scholarly discussion of the topic and this wasn't it. I never finished the book.
Is the review positive or negative? 