title: Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (A City Lights Anthology)
author: James Brook
description: "A breathtaking ride through a dozen different cities called San Francisco." -- <i>Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz</i>
zlib_text: CONTRARY NOTIONS
  The Michael Parenti Reader
  CITY LIGHTS BOOKS
  SAN FRANCISCO
  
  Copyright © 2007 by Michael Parenti
  Cover design: Pollen
  Text design: Gambrinus
  Front cover photo by: Willa Madden
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Parenti, Michael, 1933-
  Contrary notions: the Michael Parenti reader.
  p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  isbn-13: 978-0-87286-482-5
  isbn-10: 0-87286-482-0
  1. United States—Social conditions—1980- 2. United States—
  Politics and government. 3. World politics—1989- 4. Social
  history—1970- 5. Capitalism. I. Title.
  hn59.2.p382 2007
  973.92—dc22
  2006101941
  City Lights Books are published at the City Lights Bookstore,
  261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133.
  Visit our Web site: www.citylights.com
  
  CONTENTS
  Introduction
  ix
  I. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
  1.
  Media Moments
  3
  2.
  Liberal Media Yet to Be Found
  7
  3.
  Methods of Media Manipulation
  17
  4.
  Objectivity and the Dominant Paradigm
  31
  5.
  Repression in Academia
  40
  II. STEALING OUR BIRT