Contrary notions : the Michael Parenti reader.
| Author/creator | Parenti, Michael |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | San Francisco : City Lights Books, ©2007. |
| Description | xi, 403 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Media moments -- Liberal media yet to be found -- Methods of media manipulation -- Objectivity and the dominant paradigm -- Repression in academia -- The stolen presidential elections -- How the free market killed New Orleans -- Conservative judicial activism -- Why the corporate rich oppose environmentalism -- Autos and atoms -- What is to be done? -- Racist rule, then and now -- Custom against women -- Are heterosexuals worthy of marriage? -- That's Italian? Another ethnic stereotype -- La famiglia : an ethno-class experience -- Bread story : the blessings of private enterprise -- My strange values -- Technology and money : the myth of neutrality -- False consciousness -- Left, right, and the "extreme moderates" -- State vs. government -- Democracy vs. capitalism -- Socialism today? -- Capital and labor, an old story -- Wealth, addiction, and poverty -- Monopoly culture and social legitimacy -- The flight from class -- Imperialism for beginners -- The free market paradise liberates communist Europe -- The rational destruction of Yugoslavia -- To kill Iraq -- Good things happening in Venezuela -- A word about terrorists -- Dominant history -- Fascism, the real story -- The Cold War is an old war -- The people as "rabble" and "mob". |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006101941 |
| ISBN | 9780872864825 |
| ISBN | 0872864820 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HN59.2 .P382 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |