Noam Chomsky's Book Recommendations
Noam Chomsky, born December 7, 1928, is an influential American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and social critic. He revolutionized the field of linguistics with his theory of generative grammar, particularly through his seminal work, "Syntactic Structures" (1957). Chomsky's contributions extend beyond linguistics to political activism, where he is known for his critiques of U.S. foreign policy and media, encapsulated in works like "Manufacturing Consent" (1988). As a professor emeritus at MIT, his interdisciplinary approach has significantly impacted cognitive science, philosophy of language, and political thought. Chomsky remains a prolific author and speaker, continuing to shape academic and public discourses.
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The Wealth of Nations
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Out of Control
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Democracy at Work
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Interventions
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Condemned to Repetition
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Arguing about War
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Kennedy Tapes Concise Edition
Ernest R May, Philip D Zelikow
Empire of Fortune
Francis Jennings
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951
Ilan Pappé
The State of the World's Children 1999
Carol Bellamy
Business as a System of Power
Robert A. Brady
John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
William Earl Weeks
Washington's War on Nicaragua
Holly Sklar
Collateral Damage
Cynthia Peters
Humanitarian Intervention
Sean D. Murphy
A Preponderance of Power
Melvyn P. Leffler
The Flawed Architect
Jussi M. Hanhimäki
Capital
Karl Marx
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
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Selling Free Enterprise
Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf
Churchill
Clive Ponting
Politicide
Baruch Kimmerling
In the Name of Democracy
Tom H. Carothers
The Korean War
Bruce Cumings
The Spanish Cockpit
Franz Borkenau
The Marshall Plan
Michael J. Hogan
Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire
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Safe for Democracy:The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923
Lloyd C. Gardner
A Thousand Days
Arthur Meier Schlesinger
The New Intifada
Roane Carey
The American Occupation of Japan
Michael Schaller
The Record of the Paper
Howard Friel, Richard A. Falk
The Uncensored War
Daniel C. Hallin
In Retrospect
Robert S. McNamara
Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956
Benny Morris
Collusion Across the Jordan
Avi Shlaim
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
Telford Taylor
Inevitable Revolutions
Walter LaFeber
Facing West
Richard Drinnon
No Gods, No Masters
Daniel Gu�rin
Conflicting Missions
Piero Gleijeses
Reagan Versus The Sandinistas
Peter Kornbluh, Thomas W Walker, Harvey Williams, Eva Gold, Patricia Hynds
The Limits of State Action
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The Long Peace
John Lewis Gaddis
The Iran-Contra Connection
Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, Jane Haapiseva-Hunter
Right Turn
Thomas Ferguson, Joel Rogers
Anarcho-Syndicalism
Rudolf Rocker
Last Reflections on a War
Bernard B. Fall
The Real Terror Network
Edward S. Herman
PRICE OF POWER
Seymour Hersh
Kurdistan
Jonathan C. Randal
Kennedy's Quest for Victory
Thomas G. Paterson
Crises of Democracy
Adam Przeworski
Power Without Responsibility
James Curran, Jean Seaton
Worlds in Collision
Ken Booth, T. Dunne
The Age Of Terror
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Panic Rules!
Robin Hahnel
Chattanooga--a Death Grip on the Confederacy
James L. McDonough
Cambodia, 1975-1982
Michael Vickery
The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860
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The Politics of Health Policy
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Al-Qaeda
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