Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public

intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly

diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures. Now, in

Understanding Power, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled

the best of Chomsky''s talks on the past, present and future of the politics

of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions –

published here for the first time – Chomsky radically reinterprets the

events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy

during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton

administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America''s

imperialistic foreign policy and social inequalities at home, Chomsky also

discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to

political activism and the media''s role in popular struggle, as well as US

foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power is definitive Chomsky.