TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parenti,Michael
TI  - America besieged
SN  - 0872863387 (pbk.)
AV  - HN 90 P228a 1998
U1  - 306 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - City Lights Books
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - United States
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1981-2001
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1980-
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1993-2001
N1  - America besieged --
The evasion of politics --
The president as corporate salesman --
Our leaders don't know best --
Republicrats and Demopublicans --
The politics of sin --
Before we give away the post office --
The distribution of wealth --
Keeping the rich invisible --
A free market for whom? --
The myth of neutrality : technology and money --
Murder on the job --
A GATT to our heads --
Ecology for the money --
The national insecurity state --
Repressing the left --
Political murder, USA --
Saying "no" to legalized drugs --
Is conspiracy only a theory? --
Methods of media manipulation --
Pack punditry --
Is it sports or is it war? --
Kozy with the Klan --
"Inferior" people --
Pictures in our heads --
What is to be done (for starters)? --
We must fight city hall
N2  - 	
America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged, not from without but from within, not subverted from below but from above
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