Books Recommended by Noam Chomsky
The Spanish Cockpit
An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War
Franz Borkenau
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Power Without Responsibility
Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
James Curran
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Culture, Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Herbert I. Schiller
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire
Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War
Mark Twain
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Business as a System of Power
Robert A. Brady
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Norman G. Finkelstein
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Requiem for Revolution
The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969
Ruth Leacock
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Das Kapital
A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Empire of Fortune
Crowns, Colonies & Tribes in the Seven Years War in America
Francis Jennings
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Bitter Fruit
The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
Stephen C. Schlesinger
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Out of Control
The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection
Leslie Cockburn
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Web Of Deceit
Britain's Real Role in the World
Mark Curtis
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
Accumulation and Power
Economic History of the United States
Richard B. DuBoff
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
The Politics of Health Policy
The U.S. Reforms, 1980 - 1994
Vicente Navarro
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
William Earl Weeks
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
In Retrospect
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert Mcnamara
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
The Politics of Heroin
CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
Alfred W. McCoy
Source: On the "Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky" list.
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