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Product Description: In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equally awesome growth in U.S. military power. This book analyzes this global empire: what interests it serves and what effect it has on the peoples of the world and on their struggles for real democracy and social justice...read more
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9781594519178 | Paradigm Pub, April 30, 2011, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equally awesome growth in U.

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9781594519185 | Paradigm Pub, April 30, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equally awesome growth in U.

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Product Description: "It's not God I have a problem with; it's his fan club." -AnonymousNoted author and activist Michael Parenti brings his critical acumen and rhetorical skills to bear on the dark side of religion, from the many evils committed in the name of holy causes throughout history to the vast hypocrisies of its unworthy advocates past and present...read more
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9781616141776 | Prometheus Books, March 23, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "It's not God I have a problem with; it's his fan club.

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Product Description: DEMOCRACY FOR THE FEW is a provocative interpretation of American Government. It shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies, and how popular forces have fought back and occasionally made gains in spite of the system...read more
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9780312293475 | 7 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, August 1, 2001), cover price $59.95

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9780495911265 | 9 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, March 5, 2010), cover price $108.95 | also contains Democracy for the Few | About this edition: DEMOCRACY FOR THE FEW is a provocative interpretation of American Government.
9780495007449 | 8 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, February 15, 2007), cover price $98.95 | About this edition: This is no ordinary textbook on American Government.
9780312392505 | 7 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, July 1, 2001), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: Parenti's provocative critique of class power within traditional political institutions will arouse classroom debate and introduce students to a unique viewpoint of American capitalism.
9780312052331 | 6th edition (Bedford/st Martins, January 1, 1995), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Studies the American political system and government from the viewpoint that our government represents the privileged few as a result of the distribution of sources of power within American society

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Product Description: One of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts, Michael Parenti shows us that culture is a changing process and the product of a dynamic interplay between a wide range of social and political interests. Drawing from cultures around the world, Parenti shows that beliefs and practices are readily subjected to political manipulation, and that many parts of culture are being commodified, separated from their group or communal origins, to be packaged and sold to those who can pay for them...read more
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9781583227046 | Seven Stories Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: One of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts, Michael Parenti shows us that culture is a changing process and the product of a dynamic interplay between a wide range of social and political interests.

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Product Description: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, Michael Parenti and Leonard Weinglass spell out the grim realities of US aggressions against Cuba since 1898. In 1959, with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Washington implemented international terrorism as a tool of its foreign policy, and violence has become a doctrinal norm in world affairs...read more
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9781567513400 | Common Courage Pr, August 15, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, Michael Parenti and Leonard Weinglass spell out the grim realities of US aggressions against Cuba since 1898.

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Explores the true meaning of patriotism by examining how political leaders and the media use fear to win support for military interventions and inflated arms budgets at the expense of projects that serve the real needs of humanity.
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9780872864337 | City Lights Books, September 15, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Explores the true meaning of patriotism by examining how political leaders and the media use fear to win support for military interventions and inflated arms budgets at the expense of projects that serve the real needs of humanity.

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Product Description: Intrigue, murder, and class struggle at the heart of the Roman Empire. Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti presents us with a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth...read more
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9781565847972 | New Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents a history of the late republic in Rome from the viewpoint of the powerless slaves, plebs, and farmers to show that Caesar's death was the consummation of class conflict, economic inequality, and political corruption.

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9781565849426 | New Pr, August 30, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Intrigue, murder, and class struggle at the heart of the Roman Empire.

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Product Description: "An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind" features poems by over 100 poets from all over America, including the former Poet Laureate of the United States. This important book creates an alternative poetic response to the din of collective madness that has characterized our national dialogue since 9/11/2001...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Allen Cohen (editor), Clive Matson (editor) and Michael Parenti (foreword by)
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9781587900341 | 1 edition (Regent Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: "An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind" features poems by over 100 poets from all over America, including the former Poet Laureate of the United States.

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Product Description: Challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind Western rhetoric.Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781859847763 | Verso Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Challenges media coverage of the war in Yugoslavia and the aerial attacks launched by the United States and NATO, and argues that Western leaders and NATO waged a disinformation campaign in pursuit of free-market reforms.

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9781859843666 | Verso Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind Western rhetoric.

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Product Description: A penetrating analysis of the hidden political, economic, and religious agendas behind the September 11 attacks and the war, with an emphasis on Afghanistan’s history and the U.S.-led globalization process that has impoverished and angered much of the world. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780872864054 | City Lights Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A penetrating analysis of the hidden political, economic, and religious agendas behind the September 11 attacks and the war, with an emphasis on Afghanistan’s history and the U.

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Product Description: In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history’s victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780872863644 | City Lights Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths.

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9780872863576 | City Lights Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays on how history’s victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work.

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Essays offer a critical look at American politics, the undue influence of wealth, income disparity, and manipulation of the media
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9780872863385 | City Lights Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays offer a critical look at American politics, the undue influence of wealth, income disparity, and manipulation of the media

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Product Description: Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology - terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780872863309 | City Lights Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology - terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.

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9780872863293, titled "Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism" | City Lights Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark.

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Product Description: This eye-opening and entertaining collection of essays investigates media and culture, conspiracy and state power, ideology and political consciousness. Parenti ranges over such crucial issues as free speech, the rise of neofascism, the relationship between wealth and poverty, the “terrorism” hype, the continuing mystifications about the Kennedy assassination, and the deceptions and injustices of U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780872863187 | City Lights Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This eye-opening and entertaining collection of essays investigates media and culture, conspiracy and state power, ideology and political consciousness.

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9780872863170 | City Lights Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This eye-opening and entertaining collection of essays investigates media and culture, conspiracy and state power, ideology and political consciousness.

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Product Description: Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780872862982 | City Lights Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.

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Arguing against the presumption that the U.S. has no dominant ideology, the author confronts the myths in American society that limit the perception of political reality and constrain progressive reform
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9780312098414 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Arguing against the presumption that the U.

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9780312094973 | Bedford/st Martins, February 1, 1994, cover price $27.70 | About this edition: Arguing against the presumption that the U.

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9780829035698 | Irvington Pub, August 1, 1993, cover price $5.00

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Argues that the news media are subtly controlled by sponsors and the government, shows examples of press bias, and identifies the means by which the media misrepresent reality
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9780312086299 | 2 sub edition (St Martins Pr, October 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Argues that the news media are subtly controlled by sponsors and the government, shows examples of press bias, and identifies the means by which the media misrepresent reality

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9780312020132 | 2 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 1992), cover price $73.95 | About this edition: Argues that the news media are subtly controlled by sponsors and the government, shows examples of press bias, and identifies the means by which the media misrepresent reality

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Shows how America's media actually promote the ideals of the economic and political forces that control them and alter the way America views history, politics, race, gender, and class (view table of contents)
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9780312058944 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Shows how America's media actually promote the ideals of the economic and political forces that control them and alter the way America views history, politics, race, gender, and class

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9780312056032 | Wadsworth Pub Co, November 1, 1991, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: Shows how America's media actually promote the ideals of the economic and political forces that control them and alter the way America views history, politics, race, gender, and class

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9780312022952 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $16.95

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9780312011673, titled "The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism Revolution and the Arms Race" | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1988, cover price $21.30

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9780312633721 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 1978, cover price $14.00

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9780312633738 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1978, cover price $18.65

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9780405064135 | New edition (Ayer Co Pub, August 1, 1975), cover price $30.95

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