A champion of environmental and social justice causes, John Perkins is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, a startling exposé of international corruption that spent more than a year on the New York Times Best Sellers list. In The Secret History of the American Empire, he examines our unstable and, he argues, unsustainable world. Zeroing in on sociopolitical and environmental hot spots like Venezuela, Tibet, Israel, and Iraq, Perkins outlines a concrete plan for creating a more stable, sustainable, and peaceful world.