The Top 100 Books Referenced by Noam Chomsky

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	Book Title	Author(s)
1	The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda	Edward Herman
2	Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counter-Terrorism, 1940-1990	Michael McClintock
3	Last Reflections on a War: Bernard B.Fall's Last Comments on Vietnam	Bernard B. Fall
4	Capital: Critique of Political Economy v. 1	Karl Marx
5	Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics	Thomas Ferguson; Joel Rogers
6	Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, Pretoria	Piero Gleijeses
7	Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1980	Gabriel Kolko
8	Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam	George Kahin
9	Requiem for Revolution: United States and Brazil, 1961-69	Ruth Leacock
10	Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis	Raymond L. Garthoff
11	The Crisis of Democracy	Samuel P. Huntington; Joji Watanuki; Michel Crozier
12	The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia	Alfred W. McCoy
13	The Reagan Aministration And Nicaragua	James Petras; Morris Morley
14	A Preponderance of Power: National Security, Truman Administration and the Cold War	Melvyn P. Leffler
15	Inevitable Revolutions: United States in Central America	Walter Lafeber
16	The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War	John Lewis Gaddis
17	Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict	Norman G. Finkelstein
18	Reagan Versus the Sandinistas: Undeclared War on Nicaragua	Thomas W. Walker
19	In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years	Thomas Carothers
20	The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951	Ilan Pappe
21	Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963	Thomas G. Paterson
22	Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam	Douglas Pike
23	The CIA: Forgotten History	William Blum
24	Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America	Lars Schoultz
25	Cambodia 1975 - 1982	Michael Vickery
26	Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in US Communications History	Robert McChesney
27	Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America	Abraham F. Lowenthal
28	No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism	Daniel Guerin
29	Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty	Alex Carey
30	Supremacy and Oil: Iraq, Turkey and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-30	William Stivers
31	The Uses of Haiti	Paul Farmer
32	Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice	Rudolf Rocker
33	Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine	Avi Shlaim
34	Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923	Lloyd C. Gardner
35	Business as a System of Power	Robert A. Brady
36	American Foreign Policy	Henry A. Kissinger
37	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith
38	Economic Liberalism and Under-development	Frederick Clairmont
39	Collateral Damage: The New World Order at Home and Abroad	Cynthia Peters
40	The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era	Jane Hunter; Jonathan Marshall; Peter Dale Scott
41	Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War	Benny Morris
42	Voices of a People's History of the United States	Howard Zinn; Anthony Arnove
43	The Limits of State Action	Wilhelm von Humboldt; J. W. Burrow
44	War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives	Carl Kaysen
45	The Kennedy Tapes. Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis	Philip D. Zelikow; Ernest R. May
46	Condemned to Repetition: United States and Nicaragua	Robert A. Pastor
47	Peace Denied: United States, Vietnam and the Paris Agreement	Gareth Porter
48	The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time	Karl Polanyi
49	Emergence of a Free Press	Leonard W. Levy
50	Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years	McGeorge Bundy
51	The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid	Roane Carey
52	The Transformation of American Law 1870 - 1960	Morton J. Horwitz
53	The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House	Seymour M. Hersh
54	Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60	Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
55	The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952	Michael J. Hogan
56	The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution	Jules R Benjamin
57	The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience	William Shawcross
58	The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922-1940	David F. Schmitz
59	Just the Facts: A Civilian's Guide to U.S. Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean	Joy Olson; Adam Isacson
60	John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire	William Earl Weeks
61	The Origins of the Korean War: Volume II The Roaring of the Cataract 1947-1950	Bruce Cumings
62	Churchill	Clive Ponting
63	The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia	Michael Schaller
64	Facing West: Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building	Richard Drinnon
65	In Retrospect	Robert S. McNamara
66	Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948	Nur Masalha
67	The CIA and American Democracy	Rhodri Jeffreys-jones
68	European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960	V.G. Kiernan
69	Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians	Baruch Kimmerling
70	After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters With Kurdistan	Jonathan Randal
71	A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House	Arthur M. Schlesinger
72	Politics of Health Policy: The U.S.Reforms, 1980-93	Vicente Navarro
73	Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression	Herbert I. Schiller
74	1984	George Orwell
75	Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain	Jean Seaton; James Curran
76	Accumulation and Power: Economic History of the United States	Richard B. DuBoff
77	The Record of the Paper: How the "New York Times" Misreports US Foreign Policy	Richard A. Falk; Howard Friel
78	Worlds in Collision	Ken Booth; Tim Dunne; Kenneth N. Waltz
79	The Discovery of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
80	The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam	Daniel C. Hallin
81	Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo	Miranda Vickers
82	Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Foreign Policy: Britain's Real Role in the World	Mark Curtis
83	The State of the World's Children: 1997	UNICEF
84	Qaddafi and the United States since 1969	Edward Haley
85	U.S.Policy Toward Economic Nationalism in Latin America, 1917-29	Michael L. Krenn
86	Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War	Franz Borkenau
87	Washington's War on Nicaragua	Holly Sklar
88	Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam	Jason Burke
89	The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976	Stephen G. Rabe
90	Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an Evolving World Order	Sean D. Murphy
91	Panic Rules: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy	Robin Hahnel
92	The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11	Strobe Talbott; Nayan Chanda
93	Nicaragua: The Price of Intervention : Reagan's Wars Against the Sandinistas	Peter Kornbluh
94	Empire of Fortune	Francis Jennings
95	Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala	Stephen C. Schlesinger; Stephen Kinzer
96	Arguing About War	Michael Walzer
97	Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Antiimperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War	Mark Twain; Jim Zwick
98	The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials	Telford Taylor
99	Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection	Leslie Cockburn
100	East Timor: The Price of Freedom	John G. Taylor

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