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At the centre of pratically every major debate over America?s role in the
world, one finds Noam Chomsky?s ideas – sometimes attacked, sometimes
studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his
published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome
range of this ever-critical mind – from global questions of war and peace
to the most intricate questions of human intelligence, IQ and creativity.
It reveals the underlying radical coherency of his view of the world – from
his enormously influential attacks on America?s role in Vietnam to his
perspective on Nicaragua and Central America Today. Chomsky?s challenges to
accepted wisdom about Israel and the Palestinians has caused a furore in
America, as have his trenchant essays on the real nature of terrorism in
our age. No one has dissected more graphically the character of the cold
war consensus and the way it benefits the two superpowers, and argued more
thoughtfully for a shared elitist ethos in liberalism and communism. No one
has exposed more logically America?s acclaimed freedoms as masking
irresponsible power and unjustified privilege, or argued quite so
insistently that the ?free press? is part of a stultifying conformity that
pervades all aspects of American intellectual life.
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