Bestselling track record: Chomsky is a perennial bestseller with a large national audience; his most recent book for Picador, Who Rules the World?, sold a combined 50 thousand copies.
Major anniversary: Will be published on the anniversary of America's final withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Unique Collaboration: Combines one of the nation's most celebrated intellectuals with a critically acclaimed radical scholar of Third World politics and social movements-creating the potential for a large and diverse new audience of readers.
Original take on a timely topic: Argues that the Afghanistan debacle was not a unique disaster but part of a broader trend of American military and imperial collapse.
Popular format: Transcribed and edited conversations will make a complex history and political situation accessible to a wide range of general readers.