What's Your Favorite Chomsky Title

[stepnw1f]

I intend to borrow a Chomsky title from the library and was hoping you people could tell me what his best writings are. Any suggestions for my first read?

1. Understanding Power

is a pretty good recent overview of things.
It has a bonus also in that the book is around 400 pages, but there are extended footnotes available on the internet, which are not included in the printed version, that amount to around 400 pages on their own.

[stepnw1f]

2. Thank you 56kid

[mb7588a]

3. Profit Over People

Great indictment of neo-liberalism (the international term for neo-conservatism)...

[toddzilla]

4. hegemony or survival is good

i'm 1/2 way through it, but it took 4 months to get it due to a waiting list.

[On the Road]

5. When I discovered Chomsky, I Bought about Ten Books

and went through all of them. So they kind of blur together. I was particularly interested in American interventions in other countries that I had not heard about or had only heard about in a distorted way. One I remember learning a lot from was "The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism."

Some of the Latin American history is also contained in "Year 501: The Conquest Continues."

But it really depends on what you want to learn about. "Manufacturing Consent" is his most famous -- and justly so, because of the insight it gives into how the US media propagandize and shape public opinion. "The Fasteful Triangle" is about the middle east. "After the Cataclysm" is about Indochina. I don't think I've ever read a bad Chomsky book.

[stepnw1f]

9. I am really Interested in Corporatism and

its effect on government, media, society, education and religion. Manufacturing Consent sounds like a good start.

[proud patriot]

6. Rouge States a newer one was good

Manufacturing Consent is the best introduction
to Chomsky ..however if once you him and Like what you
read . "the Indespensible Chomsky" and "The Chomsky reader"
are great but they are big big books compared to other
Chomsky books ....

I've read them all and like them all .

[kodi]

8. yeas, MC is the best intro to the man's writngs on politics

but there is an excellent text called "chomsky's politics" by milan rai that examines chomsky's critiques on the american political process.

also a valuable intro text for the novice chomsky reader would be "year 501: the conquest continues"

[jansu]

7. Brilliant Writer!

I read everything I can get my hands on by this great thinker/researcher/patriot! Just put your name down on the waiting list for any of his books and you won't be disappointed. I received "Hegemony or Survival" for Christmas and finished it in two weeks. Could not put it down.

Also recommend "A People's History of the United States" by Zinn

[Suspicious]

10. Understanding Power

is a great book to start with (although I read American Power and the New Mandarins, first); it contains a vast amount of information on a variety of subjects, and the format makes the material less dense than much of his work.

Hegemony or Survival is excellent, as well.