Dilip Hiro, an Iran expert and TomDispatch regular, has just written a new book that puts Iran, the United States, China, and Russia into a global context. It’s called After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World and I’m proud to say that it grew from an article Hiro wrote for this website back in 2007, “The Sole Superpower in Decline.” It offers the kind of balanced, knowledgeable assessment of our world that we’ve come to expect from him and which should put After Empire on every bookshelf.
- Tom Engelhardt, Editor of TomDispatch.com
"Seemingly lost in the woods of deceit and banality, bereft of hope, we are confronted by Rebecca Solnit and her astonishing flashlight. In a jewel of a book that is poetic in substance as well as style, she reveals where we were, where we are and the step-by-step advances that have been made in human rights, as we stubbornly stumble out of the darkness." --Studs Terkel
