Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti (English) Paperback Book

Description: Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti Cultural Writing. Essays. This collection of essays is both eye-opening and entertaining. Investigating media and culture, conspiracy and state power, and ideology and political consciousness, Parenti focuses on a variety of issues including free speech, the rise of neofascism, the relationship between wealth and poverty, the "terrorism" hype, the continuing mystification about the Kennedy assassination, and the deceptions and injustices of global domination. He shows the links between seemingly disparate social and political forces. The book also includes three of his poems and moving accounts of his own family life and the political intolerance he encountered in academia. Michael Parenti is one of the country's most astute and engaging political analysts and has taught in a number of universities. He is living now in Berkeley, California. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the liberal media, terrorist hype, John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy phobia, and an insiders view of ethnic struggle, among many other topical subjects. The essays are eye-openers, expressed in straightforward, smooth prose that entertains as it informs. If you enjoy a fresh perspective on contemporary issues, or if you want information on issues that may have been hidden or glossed over by the media, pick up Parenti!"Parenti is a genuinely interesting guy, and when he writes about his own experiences, hes extremely effective. Its impossible not to sympathize with a man being blacklisted from academia because of his political beliefs, or with the kid who has to watch his dads bakery forced out of business by the big chains. The points that Parenti raises in his essays are almost unfailingly thought-provoking." -Publishers WeeklyMichael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nations leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 275 published articles and twenty books. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad. Author Biography Michael Parenti (Ph.D., Yale University) is an internationally known, award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. Among his recent books are "God and His Demons" (2010), "Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader" (2007), "The Culture Struggle" (2006), "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" (2003), and "Democracy for the Few, 9th edition" (2010). Kirkus US Review America the Beautiful is a lie, and the American dream is a nightmare for all but the rich. So argues leftist journalist Parenti (Land of Idols, 1993, etc.) in this scattershot collection. As the long subtitle suggests, this book gathers occasional pieces - sometimes only a couple of pages long - on subjects connected only by the authors insistent Marxist analysis, "the other great paradigm that haunts the bourgeois scholarly world like a specter." One out of every six Americans regularly uses emotion-controlling medical drugs; 150,000 young people are reported missing every year; 16 million Americans have diabetes, thanks in part to a diet of sugary junk food; and 12 million Americans are chronically malnourished due to poverty. This is so, Parenti maintains, because "the goal of ruling interests is to keep this society and the entire world open for maximum profitability regardless of the human and environmental costs." None of this is new, of course; any number of similarly inclined social critics have been pressing the argument for years. Parenti has a penchant for flogging long-dead horses: "The Nazi invasion of Poland is fascism in action; the American invasion of Vietnam is a blunder or at worst an immoral application of power." He also has a maddening habit of refusing to get down to cases; he may well be right, but he never sticks around long enough to argue his point, instead firing a volley and dashing to the next target: the JFK assassination, global warming. When he does settle in for an extended discussion, he often scores points, as when he examines the role of the corporate media in stifling left journalistic criticism. And Parentis memoir of growing up in a working-class Italian family is warm and fully realized while keeping a radical edge, a real contribution to the ethnic-studies literature. Still, Parenti is mostly content to offer propaganda in the place of closely argued advocacy. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the liberal media, terrorist hype, John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy phobia, and an insiders view of ethnic struggle, among many other topical subjects. The essays are eye-openers, expressed in straightforward, smooth prose that entertains as it informs. If you enjoy a fresh perspective on contemporary issues, or if you want information on issues that may have been hidden or glossed over by the media, pick up Parenti! "Parenti is a genuinely interesting guy, and when he writes about his own experiences, hes extremely effective. Its impossible not to sympathize with a man being blacklisted from academia because of his political beliefs, or with the kid who has to watch his dads bakery forced out of business by the big chains. The points that Parenti raises in his essays are almost unfailingly thought-provoking." --Publishers Weekly Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nations leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 275 published articles and twenty books. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad. Details ISBN0872863174 Author Michael Parenti Short Title DIRTY TRUTHS Publisher City Lights Books Language English ISBN-10 0872863174 ISBN-13 9780872863170 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 361.1 Year 2001 Publication Date 2001-01-31 Imprint City Lights Books Country of Publication United States Birth 1933 Residence US Pages 282 Place of Publication Monroe, OR DOI 10.1604/9780872863170 Audience General/Trade AU Release Date 2001-01-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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