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Title: Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel, Peter R. Mitchell, Peter Mitchell ISBN: 1-56584-703-2 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (62 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read It Before You Review It !!
Comment: This is a compilation of questions and answers from seminars and meeting in which Chomsky was a speaker over the time frame 1989 to the late 1990's. in which he addresses a wide range of social and governmental domestic and foreign affairs topics. It has been edited and compiled as a 400 page book in small font and has lots of information.
I am relatively new to Chomsky. After reading some positive comments by some other reviewers at Amazon.com I decided to buy the George Soros book "American Supremacy" and Chomsky's new best seller "Hegemony or Survival". I thought they would be an interesting read and I actually knew a bit more about Soros than Chomsky. I had a distant connection with Chomsky in the 1960's when I was a student and we both worked at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics - he being a well known professor and already famous and I was a lowly student.
In any case I thought both of the books would in fact be nonsense but interesting reads. Previously I had just finished reading the very interesting book "Enigma of Japanese Power" by Karel Van Wolferen that describes how the Japanese society was forced to conform to a regimented life and submissive life through a combination of propaganda, education, and other social pressures - that the Japanese seriously refer to as "living in harmony". I was feeling good about our free society that was quite startled and taken aback when I read Chomsky's book. But after reading his book it is clear we are in a similar situation! We are inundated with propaganda but in different ways with different consequences.
Chomsky has a basic set of principles that involve free speech, legal actions, dissent, etc. and I have now read a number of his books this being the most recent. It is better than some of his other books because of the size and breadth of the subjects covered. He brings a slight bit of humor to some of his talks such as "Mass Murderers at Harvard" or "The Computer and The Crowbar". He also attacks Canada for its lack of free speech - here it is a hate crime if you say certain words and in theory one can go to prison - just like Iran. I very much appreciate that comment and it is what I have thought all along.
Chomsky is not a socialist "nut case" or communist or similar. His books bring a lot of solid logic and an underlying core of reasonableness and fairness and I would encourage more to people to read this book and his other books. Last week I read his book "Power and Terrorism" and I learned a few things in that book. I think many of his views are closer to the ideals of freedom and democracy than those of the vast number of our professional politicians.
If you are a reviewer, please read the book carefully before you write the review.
Five stars.
My humble opinion.
Jack in Toronto
Rating: 5
Summary: A very aptly titled book
Comment: This book is aptly titled. It is, indeed, indispensable as a guide to Noam Chomsky's prolific work as an activist writer/speaker, spanning four decades and innumerable topics. Chomsky is often at his best in talks, Q & A sessions and impromptu answers to interviewers. This is how one should like to be introduced to Chomsky's vast political work. But previous books of interviews, however laudable for their readability, are equally damnable for the absence of references. Where did Chomsky read that comment by such-and-such an official? How do I know he's not making it up? Such questions occur rightly to most people upon their first encounter with someone presenting a view of the social world as unorthodox as Chomsky's. And the interview format provides no answers. The editors of this volume have found an ingenious solution. They have produced a Chomsky reader that is quite unlike a reader -- it consists mostly of transcribed exchanges with audiences at teach-ins and seminar-type discussions -- yet offers notes and references as extensive as -- indeed, more extensive than -- any of the books Chomsky himself has written.
Chomsky has spoken of the need for "primers in intellectual self-defense". This book, I think, could serve that purpose very well.
Rating: 4
Summary: First Chomsky book..definatly Not my last..
Comment: For years I heard about Noam Chomsky and so I decided to finally read something of his.
Wow..
While this book is not "written" but rather material from transcribed conversations (thus a bit difficult at times to read) it still is packed with interesting information and opinions and facts about the way the US has wielded power, tried to manipulate and control everything...
whether they be Democratic Presidents or Republicans both parties have been accomplices to injustice and hypocrisy...
We need a new paradigm for the way the US works in the world.. if we are going to survive as a nation intact...
Peace
Caeli
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Title: 9-11 by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1583224890 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0805074007 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1583225366 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman ISBN: 0375714499 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title:Noam Chomsky - Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? ASIN: B00008AOW1 Publisher: Koch Vision Entertai Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $7.98 |
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