false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222383818m/194805.jpg 194805 3 <I>Understanding Power</I> is a wide-ranging collection of transcribed and previously unpublished discussions and seminars (from 1989 to 1999) with sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky. <p> 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 third-party politics, the stifling of true dissent, the illusion of a muscular media, heavy-handed American imperialism (from Southeast Asia to Mexico), a dysfunctional and self-destructing United States political left, the gilding of the Kennedy and Carter administrations, and the impotent state of labor unions. <p> The relatively accessibility of <I>Understanding Power</I> is a welcome balance to Chomsky's often formidable scholarly writings. This is a book best taken in doses: a sort of bedside reader. <I>--H. O'Billovitch</I> 188392 4 2 2002 Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky total:607|5:293|4:216|3:91|2:5|1:2| 607 2614 1000 65 5 2 false false Thu Apr 09 16:05:45 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 16:11:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 01:58:45 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 01:21:50 -0800 2009
I'm not a political scientist -- probably this works in my favor -- so I can't level this kind of assessment with anything like authority, but for what it's worth, I think Chomsky's mostly right about most everything he talks about.

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