Chalmers Johnson (RIP: Author and historian)

The Atlantic ^ | November 21, 2010 | James Fallows

[EveningStar]

...Chalmers Johnson died a few hours ago, at age 79, at his home near San Diego. He had had a variety of health problems for a long time...

Johnson -- "Chal" -- was a penetrating, original, and influential scholar, plus a very gifted literary and conversational stylist...

[EveningStar]

I've never heard of him but some people here may have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalmers_Johnson

[ClearCase_guy]

Anyone who says that America has an empire is a pea wit.

[Mobile Vulgus]

Looks like he was a great admirer of communism and socialism.

[Fiji Hill]

Many years ago, I read his book Autopsy on People's War (Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1973), an insightful analysis of Red China's support for "wars of national liberation." You can read it on Google Books.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[rockinqsranch]

Agree. Appears he would have qualified for one of those Czar positions with Obama. Bad health probably detered his appointment.

[paudio]

I believe he was one of those who praised Japanese economy in the 1980s and led (some) people to believe that the era of the Americans had died, and the era of the Asians (especially the Japanese) had come. Remember the ‘Asian values’? This, of course, before Japan entered a decade of economic recession.