Noam Chomsky Recommended Books
Noam Chomsky has recommended 100 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
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The Spanish Cockpit
An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War
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Power Without Responsibility
Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
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Culture, Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
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Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire
Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War
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Business as a System of Power
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Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Requiem for Revolution
The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969
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Anarcho-Syndicalism
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Churchill
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The Discovery of India
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Bitter Fruit
The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
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Empire of Fortune
Crowns, Colonies & Tribes in the Seven Years War in America
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Accumulation and Power
Economic History of the United States
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Web Of Deceit
Britain's Real Role in the World
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Out of Control
The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection
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John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
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The Politics of Health Policy
The U.S. Reforms, 1980 - 1994
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The Politics of Heroin
CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
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In Retrospect
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
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The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
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No Gods No Masters
An Anthology of Anarchism
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The CIA and American Democracy
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The Crisis of Democracy
Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission
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Supremacy and Oil
Iraq, Turkey and the Anglo American World Order 1918-1930
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The Age of Terror
America and the World After September 11
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European Empires
From Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960
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Viet Cong
The Organization and Technique of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
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The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922-1940
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The Uses of Haiti
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The American Occupation of Japan
The Orgins of the Cold War in Asia
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1984
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Also recommended by:
Tristan Harris, Jordan Peterson, J. Cole, Emma Watson, Richard Branson, Matt Mullenweg, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Jenn Im, Winston Churchill, Diane Rehm, Anna Akana, Brad Delong
Panic Rules!
Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy
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Inevitable Revolutions
The United States In Central America
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The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951
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Ruthless Criticism
New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
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Facing West
The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
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After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
My Encounters with Kurdistan
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A Thousand Days
John F. Kennedy in the White House
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East Timor
The Price Of Freedom
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Right Turn
The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics
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Exporting Democracy
The United States and Latin America
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Economic Liberalism and Under-development
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The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution
An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation
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The Quality of Mercy
Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience
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The Record of the Paper
How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy
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The Road to OPEC
United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976
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Arguing About War
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Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
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Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
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Safe for Democracy
The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923
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The Wealth of Nations
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Also recommended by:
Elon Musk, Naval Ravikant, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nick Szabo, Brandon Stanton, Bill Gurley, Patrick Bet-David
The Marshall Plan
America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952
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The Price of Power
Kissinger in the Nixon White House
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Politicide
Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians
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The State of the World's Children
1997
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Qaddafi and the United States since 1969
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Between Serb and Albanian
A History of Kosovo
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Al-Qaeda
The True Story of Radical Islam
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Humanitarian Intervention
The United Nations in an Evolving World Order
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
A Personal Memoir
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Conflicting Missions
Havana, Washington, Pretoria
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The Regan Administration and Nicaragua
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A Preponderance of Power
National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War
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In the Name of Democracy
U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years
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American Foreign Policy
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The Iran Contra-Connection
Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era
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The Kennedy Tapes
Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Condemned to Repetition
The United States and Nicaragua
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The Limits of State Action
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Peace Denied
United States, Vietnam, and the Paris agreement
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The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy
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Selling Free Enterprise
The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
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Emergence of a Free Press
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Worlds in Collision
Terror and the Future of Global Order
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The Uncensored War
The Media and the Vietnam
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Washington's War on Nicaragua
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Last Reflections On a War
Bernard B. Fall's Last Comments on Viet-Nam
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Confronting the Third World
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The Long Peace
Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War
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The CIA
Forgotten History
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Collateral Damage
The 'New World Order' At Home and Abroad
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War with Iraq
Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives
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The New Intifada
Resisting Israel's Apartheid
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The Origins of the Korean War
Volume II: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950
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Expulsion of the Palestinians
The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948
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Nicaragua
The Price of Intervention: Reagan's Wars Against the Sandinistas
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Instruments of Statecraft
U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism, 1940-1990
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Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Intervention
How America Became Involved in Vietnam
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Reagan Versus The Sandinistas
The Undeclared War On Nicaragua
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Kennedy's Quest for Victory
American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963
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Cambodia, 1975-1982
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Collusion Across the Jordan
King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine
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Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956
Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War
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Danger and Survival
Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
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Just the Facts
A Civilian's Guide to U.S. Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean
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U.S. Policy Toward Economic Nationalism in Latin American, 1917-1929
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