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Title: Very likely to ENRAGE you
Review: This book introduces Noam Chomsky's ideas in a compact, very readable way. The cartoon format isn't up to Gonick's standards, but it doesn't really detract. This title is worlds more sophisticated than the Dummys or Idiots guides you might relate it to initially. Don't be fooled.It does a fair job of covering Chomsky as a person, and his linguistic background. But the meat is the media and political criticism. Chomsky's basic ideas that there is a small ruling class in the US that control the media and just about everything else are laid out with enough support to be quite believable.The book is necessarily short, and often leaves me wanting more. Sometimes it even reads like propoganda, making seemingly outrageous claims with little support. But it references Chomsky's own works extensively, inviting you to explore more if you're sceptical.
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