Synopses & Reviews
Drawing on the author’s experiences growing up in wartime Japan and his forty years covering the United States, Democracy with a Gun traces America’s current position as the world’s sole superpower. Discussions of influential American leaders, the Second Amendment, the Civil War, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and aggressive foreign policies suggest a nation willing to act unilaterally to secure and impose its lofty goals of peace and freedom. This timely and important work offers a perspective from abroad rarely provided by the usual media pundits.
Fumio Matsuo, who was Kyodo News Service’s bureau chief in Washington, is one of Japan’s best-known international journalists.
Synopsis
A foreign journalist's inside look at American culture and history via its use of violence.
About the Author
Fumio Matsuo is one of Japan's best known international journalists. Born in Tokyo 1933. Foreign correspondent in Washington for Kyodo 1964-69, and as Bureau Chief 1981-84.