Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
 

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

by Noam Chomsky, Peter Mitchell

Understanding Power is a wide-ranging collection of transcribed and previously unpublished discussions and seminars (from 1989 to 1999) with sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky.
The chapters, each covering discrete sessions with Chomsky, arrive in a question-and-answer format that at times becomes delightfully contentious. Chomsky holds forth on such disparate topics as American... (read more)

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Poshetty
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By reading Chomsky's book I am really able to understand and appreciate the power politics of the world especially of USA.

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footnotefetish
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This book is unique in that instead of being a collection of articles, essays, speeches, or interviews with Noam Chomsky, it's a collection of transcriptions of question-and-answer sessions that took place after speaking engagements or other public appearances. So it provides perspectives that aren't as common in Chomsky's other books. The questions are more like what common people off the street would ask Chomsky. His responses are very conversational. The only thing I didn't like about...

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