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Dirty Truths: Reflections on Politics, Media, Ideology, Conspiracy, Ethnic Life and Class Power - Hardcover
Synopsis
Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the liberal media, terrorist hype, John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy phobia, and an insider's view of ethnic struggle, among many other topical subjects. The essays are eye-openers, expressed in straightforward, smooth prose...
About the Author
Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 250 published articles and seventeen books. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books...
From Kirkus Reviews
America the Beautiful is a lie, and the American dream is a nightmare for all but the rich. So argues leftist journalist Parenti (Land of Idols, 1993, etc.) in this scattershot collection. As the long subtitle suggests, this book gathers occasional pieces--sometimes only a couple of pages long--on subjects connected only by the author's insistent Marxist analysis, ``the other great paradigm that haunts the bourgeois scholarly world...
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- PublisherCity Lights Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0872863182
- ISBN 13 9780872863187
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages282
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