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Parenti is a contributing editor at The Nation and a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. He has a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics. The author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage and The Freedom, he has written for Fortune, the New York Times, Mother Jones and the London Review of Books.
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Average rating: 4.01 · 329 ratings · 50 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis 4.21 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Freedom: Shadows And Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq by Christian Parenti, Teru Kuwayama (Photographs) 3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror 3.96 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence 3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Taking Liberties: Prisons, Policing and Surveillance in an Age of Crisis 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	At War With Asia: Essays on Indochina by Noam Chomsky, Christian Parenti (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mob Action Against the State: Collected Speeches from the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair by Jello Biafra (Contributor), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Christian Parenti 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism by Ashley Dawson, Malini JoharSchueller (Editor), Christian Parenti (Contributor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999”
― Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror

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“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other means available to them, to harass civil rights activists, reds, poor people's organizations, unionists, & peaceniks? Most certainly!”
― Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror

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“Let's face it: America is full of borderline, petty despots. They gravitate toward work as police officers, security gaurds, & supervisory bureaucrats like firemen, welfare case workers, and school principles. ”
― Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror

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