Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
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"A prolific author, a charismatic speaker, and a regular guest on radio and television talk shows, Parenti communicates his message in an accessible, provocative, and historically informed style that is unrivaled among fellow progressive activists and thinkers."
— Aurora Online, January 2004
"Michael Parenti is a towering prophetic voice in American life. We need him now more than ever."
— Cornel West
"Parenti offers a valuable rebuttal to the drumbeat... from the right."
— New York Times Book Review
"A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks."
— The Catholic Journalist
"Michael Parenti is one of the greatest writers that this country has ever produced. As a historian he is a preeminent interpreter of our times... He has an undeniable sense of reality and he speaks with tremendous authority of feeling. What he has offered our world is absolutely extraordinary."
— Justin Desmangles,
Chair, Board of Regents,
Before Columbus Foundation, 2014.
"Here at home and throughout the world people are fighting back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism — some because they have no choice, others because they would choose no other course but the one that leads to peace and justice."
— Michael Parenti
Selected Books:
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
How much of what the news media tell us is true, and how does it control our view of the world? In this illuminating, provocative critique of the news media, Michael Parenti examines the subtle but profound ways in which the media influence and manipulate the public’s perception of reality.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored… Read the excerpt “Rational Fascism” here.
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Parenti presents us with a compelling story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. Parenti shows that Caesar was only the last in a line of reformers, dating back across the better part of a century…
Read widely over the years in college courses and by lay readers; hailed as a vital study of the U.S. political system.
Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life
Written with style and dash, Waiting for Yesterday is devilishly enjoyable and sometimes very touching. It provides delightful vignettes about growing up in a three-generation, working-class, Italian family, along with the amusing predicaments of a street kid's life. Read the excerpt “What’s a Slum?” here.
To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
To Kill A Nation reveals a decade-long disinformation campaign waged by Western leaders and NATO officials in their pursuit of free-market “reforms.” The political and economic destabilization of the former Yugoslavia continues today, Parenti shows, as does the forced privatization and Third Worldization of the entire region.
