Confessions Of An Economic Hitman

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John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States to accept enormous loans and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries then came under the control of the United States. This extraordinary true story exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Audible Audio Edition

Listening Length: 9 hours and 19 minutes

Program Type: Audiobook

Version: Unabridged

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Audible.com Release Date: April 28, 2005

Language: English

ASIN: B0009JKV7E

Best Sellers Rank: #10 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > International & World Politics > Trades & Tariffs #13 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Politics & Current Events > International Relations #39 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Business Leaders

It is often the personal stories that tell the bigger truths. As with Barbara Ehrenreich's intensely personal Nickel and Dimed, Perkins' story illuminates a larger picture in a way that more scholarly treatises cannot match. I value the perspective I get from Noam Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson and many others who have written about our modern empire. None of these works, though, explains it from the ground up. Perkins does that.In this book, written in spurts since the early 1980s, Perkins really does tell it like it is. This is the book I have been waiting for, the book that fills in the blanks left behind by the writers of global theories, the book that tells us how it really happens. It is one thing to read that the United States engineered ousters of democratically-elected leaders who did not do the bidding of our corporations. It is another to read of the actual steps that led to these actions. As one who likes to be able to visualize all the steps, I found great comfort in reading a well-written personal story that allows me to do this.In this rightly-named confession, Perkins puts on his hair shirt and chastises himself as he explains how he gave in to temptation again and again over several decades, while he worked to build an American corporation's profits at the expense of third-world countries. He does not describe in detail the benefits he accrued from being Satan's handyman. We do not hear stories of his exploits with women, of his flaunting his power, the meat of a LifeTime movie. These fruits of his labor are glossed over in favor of greater descriptions of the occasional pangs of conscience.Take it as a given, then, that Perkins was right for the job of economic hit man because he was so easily tempted by material wealth, power, and adulation.

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