Noam Chomsky Reading List
Africa
■The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson
■Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 by Edward P. Haley
Anarchism
■Anarchism by Daniel Guerin
■Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker
■Bakunin on Anarchy: Selected Works by the Activist-Founder of World Anarchism edited by Sam Dolgoff
■Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter H. Marshall
■Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
■Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
Asia
■Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization by Alice Amsden
■Cambodia: 1975-1982 by Michael Vickery
■The Case of General Yamashita by A. Frank Reel
■Forty Days with the Enemy by Richard Dudman
■Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community edited by Ben Kiernan
■Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization by Robert Wade
■Kampuchea: Decade of the Genocide edited by Kimmo Kiljunen
■The Origins of the Korean War Vol I. & II by Bruce Cumings
■The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Economic Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947-1955 by William Borden
■The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan
■Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross
■Victor’s Justice: the Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Richard M. Minnear
Arms Control
■Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration by Desmond Ball
■Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan
Central America
■The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads, and U.S. Power by Susanne Jonas
■Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
■The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras by Scott Armstrong et al.
■The C.I.A. in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention by Richard H. Immerman
■Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica by Anthony Winson
■Contra Terror in Nicaragua — Report of a Fact-finding Mission: September 1984-January 1985 by Reed Brody
■El Salvador: A Revolution Confronts the United States by Cynthia Arnson
■Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America by Robert Williams
■Grenada: An Eyewitness Account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean History That Provoked It by Hugh O’Shaughnessy
■Grenada: Revolution in Reverse by James Ferguson
■The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era by Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter
■Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today by Dan La Botz
■Nicaragua: The First Five Years edited by Thomas Walker
■Nicaragua: The Threat of a Good Example? by Dianna Melrose
■Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration’s Secret War in Nicaragua, The Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection by Leslie Cockburn
■The Reagan Administration and Nicaragua: How Washington Constructs Its Case for Counterrevolution in Central America by Morris Morley and James Petras
■Reagan versus the Sandinistas: The Undeclared War on Nicaragua edited by Thomas Walker
■Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States by Piero Gleijeses
■Under the Eagle: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean by Jenny Pearce
■Trouble in our Backyard: Central America and the United States in the Eighties edited by Mark Diskin
■Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador by Raymond Bonner
■What Difference Could a Revolution Make?: Food and Farming in the New Nicaragua by Joseph Collins et al.
■Witness to Genocide: The Present Situation of Indians in Guatemala by Craig W. Nelson and Kenneth I. Taylor
Cold War
■America’s Secret War Against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 by David S. Fogelsang
■Beyond The Cold War: Conflict and Cooperation In the Third World edited by George W. Breslauer, Harry Kreisler and Benjamin Ward
■Corporations and the Cold War edited by David Horowitz
■Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan by Raymond L. Garthoff
■Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s by Martha Honey
■Inside the League: The Shocking Exposé of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League by Scott Anderson and John Lee Anderson
■No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities by Ellen Schrecker
■A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War by Melvyn Leffler
■The Press and the Cold War by James Aronson
■Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis by Raymond L Garthoff
■Shootdown: Flight 007 and the American Connection by R.W. Johnson
■“The Target Is Destroyed”: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It by Seymour M. Hersh
■The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946-1948 by Richard M. Freeland
■Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, And the Origins of Globalism by James Peck
Cuba
■The Fish is Red: The Story of The Secret War Against Castro by Warren Hinckle and William Turner
■Imperial State and Revolution: The United States and Cuba, 1952-1986 by Morris H. Morley
Culture
■The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy by Tom Nairn
■The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America by G.J. Barker-Benfield
■Inventors of the Promised Land by Lawrence Friedman
■On Active Service in War and Peace: Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession by Jesse Lemisch
■The People’s Religion: American Faith in the 90′s by George Gallup Jr. and Jim Castelli
Domestic Policy
■Democracy and the Welfare State by edited by Amy Gutman
■The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor
■The Motorization of American Cities by David J. St. Clair
■The State of Working America (Annual)
■Take The Rich Off Welfare by Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman
Drug Policy
■White-Out: The C.I.A., Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Economics
■The ABCs of Political Economy by Robert Hahnel
■Accumulation and Power: An Economic History of the United States by Richard B. DuBoff
■Bad Smaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
■Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy by William Lazonick
■Business as a System of Power by Robert A. Brady
■Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History by Douglas F. Dowd
■The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan
■Corporate Control, Corporate Power by Edward S. Herman
■The Economy of Death by Richard Barnet
■The Great Deficit Scares: The Federal Budget, Trade, and Social Security by Robert Eisner
■The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers
■New Ways Of Knowing: The Sciences, Society, and Reconstructive Knowledge by Marcus G. Raskin and Herbert J. Bernstein
■Political Economy and Laissez-Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardan Era by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
■Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom by Doug Henwood
■The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Education
■The American School, 1642-1985: Varieties of Historical Interpretation and the Foundations and Development of American Education by Joel Spring
■Education and the Rise of the Corporate State by Joel Spring
■The Irony of Early School Reform by Michael Katz
■Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
■The Social Ideas of American Educators by Merle Curti
Environmentalism
■Global Spin: The Corporate Assault On Environmentalism by Sharon Beder
■The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle over Earth’s Threatened Climate by Ross Gelbspan
Ethics
■Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong by Marc D. Hauser
■No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn
FBI
■The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence System by Frank J. Donner
■Agents of Repression: The F.B.I.’s Secret Wars on the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill and James Vander Wall
■Break-ins, Death Threats, and the F.B.I.: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement by Ross Gelbspan
■COINTELPRO: The F.B.I.’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock
■The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the F.B.I.’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
■The Lawless State: The Crimes of U.S. Intelligence Agencies by Morton H. Halpern et al.
■Political Repression in Modern America, From 1870 to the Present by Robert J. Goldstein
■Spying On America: The F.B.I.’s Domestic Counterintelligence Program by James Kirkpatrick Davis
■War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It by Brian Glick
Globalization/Development
■America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism by David F. Noble
■Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
■Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays by Alexander Gerschenkron
■Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes by Paul Bairoch
■Economic Liberalism and Underdevelopment: Studies in the Disintegration of an Idea by Frederick Clairmonte
■Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation by David F. Noble
■Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age by L.S. Stavrianos
■Hope and Folly: The United States and U.N.E.S.C.O., 1945-1985 by William Preston, Edward S. Herman, and Herbert I. Schiller
■The Irish Economy in a Comparative Institutional Perspective by Lars Mjøset
■The Logic of International Restructuring by Winfried Ruigrock and Rob Van Tulder
■Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman
■North American Trade As If Democracy Mattered: What’s Wrong with N.A.F.T.A. and What Are the Alternatives? by Ian Robinson
■Pathways From the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries by Stephen Haggard
■Targeting the Computer: Government Support and International Competition by Kenneth Flamm
■Who’s Bashing Whom?: Trade Conflict in High-Technology Industries by Laura D’Andrea Tyson
History
■The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism edited by Alfred Young
■The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control, 1917 to 1921 by Maurice Brinton
■Britain’s First Socialists: The Levellers, Agitators, and Diggers of the English Revolution by Fenner Brockway
■The End of Empire by John Strachey
■The Forging of the Union: 1781-1789 by Richard B. Morris
■The Great Irish Famine by Cormac ó Gráda
■The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings
■Ireland before and after the Famine: Explorations in economic history, 1800-1925 by Cormac ó Gráda
■The Loyalists in the American Revolution by Claude Halstead Van Tyne
■Main Currents in American History by Gabriel Kolko
■Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America by Thomas R. Hietala
■A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
■Secret History of the American Revolution by Carl Van Doren
■The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 by Voline
■The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
Africa
■The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson
■Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 by Edward P. Haley
Anarchism
■Anarchism by Daniel Guerin
■Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker
■Bakunin on Anarchy: Selected Works by the Activist-Founder of World Anarchism edited by Sam Dolgoff
■Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter H. Marshall
■Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
■Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
Asia
■Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization by Alice Amsden
■Cambodia: 1975-1982 by Michael Vickery
■The Case of General Yamashita by A. Frank Reel
■Forty Days with the Enemy by Richard Dudman
■Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community edited by Ben Kiernan
■Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization by Robert Wade
■Kampuchea: Decade of the Genocide edited by Kimmo Kiljunen
■The Origins of the Korean War Vol I. & II by Bruce Cumings
■The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Economic Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947-1955 by William Borden
■The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan
■Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross
■Victor’s Justice: the Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Richard M. Minnear
Arms Control
■Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration by Desmond Ball
■Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan
Central America
■The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads, and U.S. Power by Susanne Jonas
■Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
■The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras by Scott Armstrong et al.
■The C.I.A. in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention by Richard H. Immerman
■Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica by Anthony Winson
■Contra Terror in Nicaragua — Report of a Fact-finding Mission: September 1984-January 1985 by Reed Brody
■El Salvador: A Revolution Confronts the United States by Cynthia Arnson
■Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America by Robert Williams
■Grenada: An Eyewitness Account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean History That Provoked It by Hugh O’Shaughnessy
■Grenada: Revolution in Reverse by James Ferguson
■The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era by Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter
■Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today by Dan La Botz
■Nicaragua: The First Five Years edited by Thomas Walker
■Nicaragua: The Threat of a Good Example? by Dianna Melrose
■Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration’s Secret War in Nicaragua, The Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection by Leslie Cockburn
■The Reagan Administration and Nicaragua: How Washington Constructs Its Case for Counterrevolution in Central America by Morris Morley and James Petras
■Reagan versus the Sandinistas: The Undeclared War on Nicaragua edited by Thomas Walker
■Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States by Piero Gleijeses
■Under the Eagle: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean by Jenny Pearce
■Trouble in our Backyard: Central America and the United States in the Eighties edited by Mark Diskin
■Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador by Raymond Bonner
■What Difference Could a Revolution Make?: Food and Farming in the New Nicaragua by Joseph Collins et al.
■Witness to Genocide: The Present Situation of Indians in Guatemala by Craig W. Nelson and Kenneth I. Taylor
Cold War
■America’s Secret War Against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 by David S. Fogelsang
■Beyond The Cold War: Conflict and Cooperation In the Third World edited by George W. Breslauer, Harry Kreisler and Benjamin Ward
■Corporations and the Cold War edited by David Horowitz
■Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan by Raymond L. Garthoff
■Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s by Martha Honey
■Inside the League: The Shocking Exposé of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League by Scott Anderson and John Lee Anderson
■No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities by Ellen Schrecker
■A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War by Melvyn Leffler
■The Press and the Cold War by James Aronson
■Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis by Raymond L Garthoff
■Shootdown: Flight 007 and the American Connection by R.W. Johnson
■“The Target Is Destroyed”: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It by Seymour M. Hersh
■The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946-1948 by Richard M. Freeland
■Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, And the Origins of Globalism by James Peck
Cuba
■The Fish is Red: The Story of The Secret War Against Castro by Warren Hinckle and William Turner
■Imperial State and Revolution: The United States and Cuba, 1952-1986 by Morris H. Morley
Culture
■The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy by Tom Nairn
■The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America by G.J. Barker-Benfield
■Inventors of the Promised Land by Lawrence Friedman
■On Active Service in War and Peace: Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession by Jesse Lemisch
■The People’s Religion: American Faith in the 90′s by George Gallup Jr. and Jim Castelli
Domestic Policy
■Democracy and the Welfare State by edited by Amy Gutman
■The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor
■The Motorization of American Cities by David J. St. Clair
■The State of Working America (Annual)
■Take The Rich Off Welfare by Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman
Drug Policy
■White-Out: The C.I.A., Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Economics
■The ABCs of Political Economy by Robert Hahnel
■Accumulation and Power: An Economic History of the United States by Richard B. DuBoff
■Bad Smaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
■Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy by William Lazonick
■Business as a System of Power by Robert A. Brady
■Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History by Douglas F. Dowd
■The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan
■Corporate Control, Corporate Power by Edward S. Herman
■The Economy of Death by Richard Barnet
■The Great Deficit Scares: The Federal Budget, Trade, and Social Security by Robert Eisner
■The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers
■New Ways Of Knowing: The Sciences, Society, and Reconstructive Knowledge by Marcus G. Raskin and Herbert J. Bernstein
■Political Economy and Laissez-Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardan Era by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
■Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom by Doug Henwood
■The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Education
■The American School, 1642-1985: Varieties of Historical Interpretation and the Foundations and Development of American Education by Joel Spring
■Education and the Rise of the Corporate State by Joel Spring
■The Irony of Early School Reform by Michael Katz
■Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
■The Social Ideas of American Educators by Merle Curti
Environmentalism
■Global Spin: The Corporate Assault On Environmentalism by Sharon Beder
■The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle over Earth’s Threatened Climate by Ross Gelbspan
Ethics
■Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong by Marc D. Hauser
■No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn
FBI
■The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence System by Frank J. Donner
■Agents of Repression: The F.B.I.’s Secret Wars on the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill and James Vander Wall
■Break-ins, Death Threats, and the F.B.I.: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement by Ross Gelbspan
■COINTELPRO: The F.B.I.’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock
■The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the F.B.I.’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
■The Lawless State: The Crimes of U.S. Intelligence Agencies by Morton H. Halpern et al.
■Political Repression in Modern America, From 1870 to the Present by Robert J. Goldstein
■Spying On America: The F.B.I.’s Domestic Counterintelligence Program by James Kirkpatrick Davis
■War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It by Brian Glick
Globalization/Development
■America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism by David F. Noble
■Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
■Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays by Alexander Gerschenkron
■Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes by Paul Bairoch
■Economic Liberalism and Underdevelopment: Studies in the Disintegration of an Idea by Frederick Clairmonte
■Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation by David F. Noble
■Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age by L.S. Stavrianos
■Hope and Folly: The United States and U.N.E.S.C.O., 1945-1985 by William Preston, Edward S. Herman, and Herbert I. Schiller
■The Irish Economy in a Comparative Institutional Perspective by Lars Mjøset
■The Logic of International Restructuring by Winfried Ruigrock and Rob Van Tulder
■Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman
■North American Trade As If Democracy Mattered: What’s Wrong with N.A.F.T.A. and What Are the Alternatives? by Ian Robinson
■Pathways From the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries by Stephen Haggard
■Targeting the Computer: Government Support and International Competition by Kenneth Flamm
■Who’s Bashing Whom?: Trade Conflict in High-Technology Industries by Laura D’Andrea Tyson
History
■The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism edited by Alfred Young
■The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control, 1917 to 1921 by Maurice Brinton
■Britain’s First Socialists: The Levellers, Agitators, and Diggers of the English Revolution by Fenner Brockway
■The End of Empire by John Strachey
■The Forging of the Union: 1781-1789 by Richard B. Morris
■The Great Irish Famine by Cormac ó Gráda
■The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings
■Ireland before and after the Famine: Explorations in economic history, 1800-1925 by Cormac ó Gráda
■The Loyalists in the American Revolution by Claude Halstead Van Tyne
■Main Currents in American History by Gabriel Kolko
■Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America by Thomas R. Hietala
■A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
■Secret History of the American Revolution by Carl Van Doren
■The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 by Voline
■The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
