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ⓘ About Noam Chomsky
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.
All Book Series by Noam Chomsky
The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays
Book 11 of 111 · published 1972 Co-authored · Howard Zinn
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
Book 13 of 111 · published 1974 Co-authored · Michel Foucault
The Sound Pattern of English
Book 17 of 111 · published 1979 Co-authored · Morris Halle
Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian
Book 36 of 111 · published 1992
Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda
Book 37 of 111 · published 1993
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture
Book 38 of 111 · published 1993
Keeping the Rabble in Line
Book 41 of 111 · published 1994 Co-authored · David Barsamian
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Book 43 of 111 · published 1995
Propaganda and the Public Mind
Book 52 of 111 · published 1998 Co-authored · David Barsamian
Acts of Aggression: Policing Rogue States
Book 57 of 111 · published 1999 Co-authored · Edward W. Said,Ramsey Clark
Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization
Book 58 of 111 · published 1999 Co-authored · Heinz Dieterich
The Architecture of Language
Book 60 of 111 · published 2000 Co-authored · Nirmalangshu Mukherjee,B.N. Patnaik
Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy
Book 61 of 111 · published 2000
On Democracy & Education
Book 68 of 111 · published 2002 Co-authored · C.P. Otero
Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews
Book 69 of 111 · published 2003
Getting Haiti Right This Time
Book 74 of 111 · published 2004 Co-authored · Amy Goodman,Paul Farmer
Targeting Iran
Book 79 of 111 · published 2007 Co-authored · David Barsamian,Ervand Abrahamian,Nahid Mozaffari
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel
Book 87 of 111 · published 2010 Anthology · Ilan Pappé
Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force
Book 88 of 111 · published 2011
How the World Works
Book 90 of 111 · published 2011 Co-authored · David Barsamian
The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray
Book 93 of 111 · published 2012 Co-authored · James A. McGilvray
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
Book 95 of 111 · published 2013 Co-authored · Laray Polk
On Western Terrorism
Book 96 of 111 · published 2013 Co-authored · André Vltchek
Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures
Book 97 of 111 · published 2014 Co-authored · Jean Drèze
Because We Say So
Book 99 of 111 · published 2015 Co-authored · Henry A. Giroux
Prophetic Voices on Middle East Peace
Book 102 of 111 · published 2016 Anthology · Ilan Pappé
Optimism over Despair
Book 103 of 111 · published 2017 Co-authored · C.J.Polychroniou
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Book 104 of 111 · published 2017
The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
Book 105 of 111 · published 2020
Consequences of Capitalism
Book 106 of 111 · published 2021 Co-authored · Marv Waterstone
The Secrets of Words
Book 108 of 111 · published 2022 Co-authored · Andrea Moro
Notes on Resistance
Book 110 of 111 · published 2022 Co-authored · David Barsamian
The Myth of American Idealism
Latest in the series · book 111 of 111 · published 2024 Co-authored · Nathan J. Robinson
A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
Book 2 of 9 · published 1995 Anthology · Juliet B. Schor
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
Book 3 of 9 · published 1997 Anthology · Robert W. McChesney
Microradio & Democracy
Book 5 of 9 · published 1999 Anthology · Robert W. McChesney
The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance
Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 2011 Anthology · Amnesty International
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 1979 Co-authored · Edward S. Herman
After the Cataclysm
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 1979 Co-authored · Edward S. Herman
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Series opener · book 1 of 43 · published 2006 Anthology · Howard Zinn
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Book 3 of 43 · published 2009 Anthology · Tim Wise
Redefining Black Power
Book 9 of 43 · published 2012 Anthology · Joanne Griffith
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
Book 13 of 43 · published 2012 Anthology · Howard Zinn
The Meaning of Freedom
Book 14 of 43 · published 2012 Anthology · Angela Y. Davis
The Black History of the White House
Book 15 of 43 · published 2013 Anthology · Clarence Lusane
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Book 16 of 43 · published 2013 Anthology · Frederick Douglass
The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Book 19 of 43 · published 2014 Anthology · Henry A. Giroux
Disposable Futures
Book 20 of 43 · published 2015 Anthology · Henry A. Giroux,Brad Evans
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Book 23 of 43 · published 2015 Anthology · Roy Scranton
America at War with Itself
Book 25 of 43 · published 2016 Anthology · Robin D.G. Kelley,Henry A. Giroux
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
Book 27 of 43 · published 2017 Anthology · Mumia Abu-Jamal
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us
Book 29 of 43 · published 2017 Anthology · John Gibler
American Nightmare
Book 31 of 43 · published 2018 Anthology · Henry A. Giroux,George Yancy
United States of Distraction
Book 32 of 43 · published 2018 Anthology · Nolan Higdon
Death Blossoms
Book 35 of 43 · published 2019 Anthology · Cornel West,Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Short History of Presidential Election Crises:
Book 36 of 43 · published 2020 Anthology · Hirsch Alan
No Fascist USA!
Book 37 of 43 · published 2020 Anthology · Robin D.G. Kelley,James Tracy
The Green New Deal and Beyond
Book 38 of 43 · published 2020 Anthology · Stan Cox
ReTargeting Iran
Book 39 of 43 · published 2020 Co-authored · David Barsamian,Ervand Abrahamian,Trita Parsi,Azadeh Moaveni,Nader Hashemi
Dispatches from the Race War
Book 40 of 43 · published 2020 Anthology · Tim Wise
Build Bridges, Not Walls
Book 41 of 43 · published 2021 Anthology · Todd Miller
Women Who Change the World
Latest in the series · book 43 of 43 · published 2023 Anthology · Lynn Marie Lewis
Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine
Book 3 of 5 · published 2004
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Noam Chomsky?
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.
Which Noam Chomsky series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Open Media series, the earliest of Noam Chomsky's multi-book series: it opens with Government in the Future (1970) and runs to 9 books across 1970–2011, ending with The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance (2011). Noam Chomsky's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Noam Chomsky written?
Noam Chomsky has 196 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1957 and 2024. 80 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the City Lights Open Media series with 43 books — and 116 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Noam Chomsky's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Noam Chomsky's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Open Media (1970–2011, 9 books), The Political Economy of Human Rights (1979, 2 books) and American Empire Project (2000–2021, 26 books), plus 1 more.
How are Noam Chomsky's books organised into series?
This guide splits Noam Chomsky's 196 books into 4 named series and 116 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: City Lights Open Media (43 books, 2006–2023); American Empire Project (26 books, 2000–2021); Open Media (9 books, 1970–2011); The Political Economy of Human Rights (2 books, 1979).