Noam Chomsky Books In Order
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Government in the Future | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Umbrella of US Power | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Open Media Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Political Economy of Human Rights Books
The Washington Connection & Third World Fascism | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the Cataclysm | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Syntactic Structures | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cartesian Linguistics | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Knowledge of Language | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Power and the New Mandarins | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Language and Mind | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At War With Asia | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For Reasons of State | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reflections on Language | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Language and Responsibility | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sound Pattern of English | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rules and Representations | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Radical Priorities | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lectures on Government & Binding | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Toward a New Cold War | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fateful Triangle | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Turning the Tide | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Barriers | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Language and Problems of Knowledge | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chomsky Reader | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Culture of Terrorism | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Language and Politics | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Necessary Illusions | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modular Approaches Study Mind | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deterring Democracy | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terrorizing the Neighborhood | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Uncle Sam Really Wants | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year 501: The Conquest Continues | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
TheProsperous Few and the Restless Many | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
World Orders, Old and New | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Keeping the Rabble in Line | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secrets, Lies and Democracy | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Minimalist Program | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Class Warfare | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prospects for Democracy | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Common Good | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Powers and Prospects | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For a Free Humanity: For Anarchy | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Perspectives on Power | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Language | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Propaganda and the Public Mind | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Profit Over People | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Power and Ideology | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Military Humanism | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rogue States | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Acts of Aggression: Policing Rogue States | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On MisEducation | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Architecture of Language | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A New Generation Draws the Line | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An American Addiction | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
9-11 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monkeywrenching the New World Order | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Democracy & Education | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Masters of Mankind | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Generative Enterprise Revisited | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Getting Haiti Right This Time | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Anarchism | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctrines and Visions | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Imperial Presidency | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Perilous Power | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Interventions | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Essential Chomsky | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chomsky On Anarchism | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New World of Indigenous Resistance | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gaza in Crisis | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Iraq: The Forever War | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hopes and Prospects | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Making the Future | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mafia Principle of Global Hegemony | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
How the World Works | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Occupy | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chomsky's Linguistics | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demand the Impossible | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Western Terrorism | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Palestine | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Because We Say So | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Kind of Creatures Are We? | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prophetic Voices on Middle East Peace | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Optimism over Despair | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Consequences of Capitalism | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Why Ideas Matter | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secrets of Words | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Withdrawal | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Notes on Resistance | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of American Empire Project Books
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A People's History of American Empire | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complex | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kill Anything That Moves | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Who Rules the World? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of City Lights Open Media Books
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Interventions | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Between Barack and a Hard Place | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Colorblind | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bomb | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossing Zero | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Die in Mexico | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dear White America | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Redefining Black Power | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Making the Future | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crusade 2.0 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Occupy the Economy | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Meaning of Freedom | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black History of the White House | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dying to Live | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Border Patrol Nation | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Violence of Organized Forgetting | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Disposable Futures | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writing on the Wall | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Because We Say So | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under the Affluence | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
America at War with Itself | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Breaking Through Power | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Storming the Wall | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Loaded | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Nightmare | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
United States of Distraction | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Torn from the World | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Violence | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Blossoms | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Fascist USA! | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green New Deal and Beyond | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
ReTargeting Iran | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dispatches from the Race War | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Build Bridges, Not Walls | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rising Up | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Women Who Change the World | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Age of Inequality | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Voices for Peace: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
About Noam Chomsky
As a public intellectual, linguist, and thinker, Noam Chomsky is an American writer who, for many, needs no introduction. Making a name for himself with his ever incisive and in-depth analysis, he understands what drives people, as he’s known to readers worldwide. Whether his audience agree with him or not, he’s a respected figure by many, as his reputation precedes him, speaking his mind on a wide range of different issues. Known far and wide for his incisive and profound analysis, he always makes an impact with his perspective and insight.
A key figure of left-wing thought, he’s often seen as a staunch critic of western hegemony and capitalism through his work and writing. Making his ideas clear and accessible, he immediately gets to the point, whether it’s in broadcasting or in print, never afraid to shy away from certain topics. Over time this has afforded him following globally, as audiences, regardless of their political leanings, have come to respect what he has to say. Speaking to wide-range of different figures, he’s always willing to communicate his ideas as well, regardless of who he’s speaking to.
During the course of his writing career all of this has led to him writing a number of different books, many of which continue to stand the test of time. For some he talks about the media, others he talks about the economy, but one thing’s for sure is that he always has something different to say. His work always has a real sense of power to it as well, as he’s an articulate an intelligent thinker who talks with confidence. With a legacy that will continue to live on, he continues to write, with more to follow still, as he isn’t stopping any time soon.
Early and Personal Life
Born in 1928 on the 7th of December, Avram Noam Chomsky was born in East Oak Lane in Philadelphia, in the United States. His parents were Jewish immigrants, with his mother being Elsie Simonofsky, and his father Ze’ev ‘William’ Chomsky, a Hebrew scholar. With a background in academia, he would pursue this field himself, while being close with his brother, the cardiologist David Eli Chomsky.
Attending Deweyite Oak Lane Country Day School, he would go on to graduate from Central High School in Philadelphia. Exposed to Socialism along with far-left politics through the International Garment Worker’s Union, and he would debate current affairs at the New York City newspaper stand after being influenced by his uncle and other Jewish leftists. As a key figure in anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements, he continues to write regularly, and he was married to his wife Carol Doris Chomsky until her passing in 2008.
Writing Career
Perhaps one of the best know texts that Noam Chomsky would write was ‘Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.’ Writing this alongside Edward S. Herman, this would come to be one of the most formative texts on how mass-media influences society as a whole, with a documentary being made from it in 1992. Other books would see him write about ideologies and western imperialism, really laying bare what his ideas on the world, such as as 2010s book ‘Chomsky On Anarchism.’
He’d also write a few series of books too, including the ‘American Empire Project,’ which would seek to take a closer look at the American empire as a whole. Often writing alongside other writers as well, he would shy away from writing about difficult subject matter such as Palestine either, with his 2015 book ‘On Palestine.’ Winning awards for his work, he’s gone on to become one of the key political dissenters, revered by many worldwide, as his audience grows day-by-day.
Who Rules The World
Originally published in 2014, this would first come out on the 1st of January to much acclaim, with it being a part of the ‘American Empire Project Series’ of books. The books themselves are all non-fiction, looking at different aspects of American society and how they function in a modern era. It’s a must not only for fans of the author, but for those looking to find out more on the subject as a whole in the long-run.
Still setting the terms of global discourse, despite the rise of the Asian and European continents, America continues to maintain its grip on global politics. Using a wide-range of different examples, Chomsky seeks to break this down, looking at the US involvement in Iran and Cuba, and how they’ve continued to maintain their grip. Analyzing Iraq and Afghanistan as well, he leaves no stone unturned, making sure to cover every single base when it comes to looking at America’s hegemony. The book also has an afterword on the election of Donald Trump, looking at everything that led to that point in history and why it happened.
One of Chomsky’s later works, this manages to capture everything about where American society is at, and where it’s heading. Providing lots of intensive data on the subject matter, he doesn’t hold back, really offering a unique insight into an area of American politics that’s otherwise left undisturbed. Making it accessible too, his work doesn’t get bogged down by academia, allowing anyone and everyone to essentially read it.
Media Control
First brought out in 1995, this would be a shorter non-fiction book from Noam Chomsky, with an audiobook version of it as well. Not a part of any series, it would be an easy to read introduction to leftist analysis of media propaganda, and how it is utilized. Published through the ‘Seven Stories Press’ publishing imprint, it would be a fast and easy read, making it ideal for anyone looking to learn more on the subject matter.
Looking back to wartime propaganda, Chomsky takes a deep dive into what really drives the American, and the global, public when it comes to the media. Speaking of propaganda as ‘a tool’ for bludgeoning the people, it seeks to rectify this, as media leads society into what is otherwise a totalitarian state. Studying the war-mongering mentality of the media, it shines a light on why those in power do this, and how they use the media to project their message. From Bush Sr.’s ill-fated war in Iraq, to satiating the blood-lust of an otherwise pacifist nation, it illuminates what Lippman calls ‘spectator democracy.’
This book would follow on from the ‘Manufacturing Consent’ as almost a footnote, but it was no less important in terms of its scope and scale. With Chomsky fully at the helm this time round, he goes about giving a full run-down of how propaganda has driven all American politics. Just as relevant today as it ever was, this book has a lot to say on where society is going, and what’s in store for the media, making this a key introductory text of anyone interested in the works of Chomsky.
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