How The World Works

By (author) Chomsky, Noam
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How the World Works is a collection of speeches and interviews. It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Reward, the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy and The Common Good.
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‘One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time’ ARUNDHATI ROY

Discover the essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairs

An extraordinary collection of Chomsky''s speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics.

Including classic essays such as:

* What Uncle Sam Really Wants
* The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
* Secrets, Lies and Democracy
* The Common Good

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The world''s greatest public intellectual
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One of the finest minds of the twentieth century
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When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky''s work will survive
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A rebel without a pause
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Arguably the most important intellectual alive
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The closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar
Biographical note:
Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lau­reate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numer­ous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, and Who Rules the World?.
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Originally published in the US as four individual books which have collectively sold over a million copies. Simple, clear and introductory nature of book will appeal to students keen to identify with Chomsky''s politics.