Actualizado el Friday, 24 February, 2023
Leemos libros para averiguar quiénes somos. Lo que otras personas, reales o imaginarias, hacen, piensan y sienten… es una guía esencial para entender qué somos nosotros mismos y en qué podemos convertirnos.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Leer libros es muy importante; muy muy importante. No solo de ficción, también libros que nos ayudan a entender la realidad, los posibles futuros y los cuestionables presentes. Hoy os traemos las 100 sugerencias de alguien muy especial, Noam Chomsky, que nos traen desde la web no oficial The Noam Chomsky Reading List.
Libros recomendados por Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, el reconocido lingüista y activista político, ha recomendado a lo largo de su vida muchos libros de diferentes géneros y temáticas. Aquí presentamos una tabla con algunos de los libros que ha recomendado en diversas entrevistas y charlas:
| Título | Autor |
|---|---|
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn |
| Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear | Henry Giroux |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| All the President’s Men | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy | Heather Ann Thompson |
| Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies | Christopher Hitchens |
| Capitalism and Freedom | Milton Friedman |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System | Giovanni Arrighi |
| Chomsky on Anarchism | Noam Chomsky |
| Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge | Karl Popper |
| Culture and Imperialism | Edward Said |
| Democracy and Education | John Dewey |
| Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism | Cornel West |
| Developmental Psycholinguistics: Three Ways of Looking at a Child’s Narrative | Katherine Nelson |
| Discourse on Colonialism | Aimé Césaire |
| Disturbing the Peace | Vaclav Havel |
| Don Quijote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Economics and the Public Purpose | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay | Clive Stafford Smith |
| El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Empire | Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri |
| Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 | Hunter S. Thompson |
| Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay |
| From Beirut to Jerusalem | Thomas L. Friedman |
| Globalization and Its Discontents | Joseph Stiglitz |
| Habermas and the Public Sphere | Craig Calhoun |
| Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance | Noam Chomsky |
| Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times | Studs Terkel |
| Howard Zinn on History | Howard Zinn |
| How to Read a Book | Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren |
| Human Rights and the Uses of History | Samuel Moyn |
| Human Rights in the Twentieth Century | Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann |
| In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years | Karl Popper |
| Inside the Company: CIA Diary | Philip Agee |
| Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II | William Blum |
| Letters to a Young Contrarian | Christopher Hitchens |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong | James W. Loewen |
| Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman |
| Mao: The Unknown Story | Jung Chang and Jon Halliday |
| Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda | Noam Chomsky |
| Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies | Noam Chomsky |
| Night | Elie Wiesel |
| On Anarchism | Mikhail Bakunin |
| On Liberty |
1. La verdadera red terrorista: terrorismo en hechos y propaganda de Edward Herman
2. Los instrumentos de la formación del Estado (1940-1990) de Michael McClintock
3. Últimas Reflexiones sobre una guerra (1967), de Bernard B. Fall, publicado después de su muerte
4. El capital: crítica de la economía política, vol 1 de Karl Marx
5. Derecha: la decadencia de los demócratas y el futuro de la política estadounidense de Thomas Ferguson y Joel Rogers
6. Misiones en conflicto: La Habana, Washington, Pretoria de Piero Gleijeses
7. Enfrentando el Tercer Mundo: política exterior de los Estados Unidos, 1945-1980 de Gabriel Kolko
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Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis Raymond L. Garthoff
9 Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam George Kahin
10 The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia Alfred W. McCoy
11 Requiem for Revolution: United States and Brazil, 1961-69 Ruth Leacock
12 The Crisis of Democracy Samuel P. Huntington; Joji Watanuki; Michel Crozier
13 The Reagan Administration And Nicaragua James Petras; Morris Morley
14 A Preponderance of Power: National Security, Truman Administration and the Cold War Melvyn P. Leffler
15 The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis
16 Inevitable Revolutions: United States in Central America Walter Lafeber
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 Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam Douglas Pike
22 Kennedy’s Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963 Thomas G. Paterson
23 Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America Lars Schoultz
24 The CIA: Forgotten History William Blum
25 Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in US Communications History Robert McChesney
26 Cambodia 1975 – 1982 Michael Vickery
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 Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine Avi Shlaim
33 Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice Rudolf Rocker
34 Business as a System of Power Robert A. Brady
35 American Foreign Policy Henry A. Kissinger
36 Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923 Lloyd C. Gardner
37 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
38 Economic Liberalism and Under-development Frederick Clairmont
39 Voices of a People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn; Anthony Arnove
40 Collateral Damage: The New World Order at Home and Abroad Cynthia Peters
41 The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era Jane Hunter; Jonathan Marshall; Peter Dale Scott
42 Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War Benny Morris
43 Condemned to Repetition: United States and Nicaragua Robert A. Pastor
44 The Kennedy Tapes. Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis Ernest R. May; Philip D. Zelikow
45 War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives Carl Kaysen
46 The Limits of State Action Wilhelm von Humboldt; J. W. Burrow
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 The Transformation of American Law 1870 – 1960 Morton J. Horwitz
50 Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
51 The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 Michael J. Hogan
52 Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years McGeorge Bundy
53 The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid Roane Carey
54 Emergence of a Free Press Leonard W. Levy
55 The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House Seymour M. Hersh
56 The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution Jules R Benjamin
57 Just the Facts: A Civilian’s Guide to U.S. Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean Joy Olson; Adam Isacson
58 John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire William Earl Weeks
59 The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922-1940 David F. Schmitz
60 The Origins of the Korean War: Volume II The Roaring of the Cataract 1947-1950 Bruce Cumings
61 The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience William Shawcross
62 Churchill Clive Ponting
63 Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians Baruch Kimmerling
64 European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 V.G. Kiernan
65 The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia Michael Schaller
66 Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 Nur Masalha
67 Facing West: Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building Richard Drinnon
68 In Retrospect Robert S. McNamara
69 The CIA and American Democracy Rhodri Jeffreys-jones
70 Politics of Health Policy: The U.S.Reforms, 1980-93 Vicente Navarro
71 After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters With Kurdistan Jonathan Randal
72 A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Arthur M. Schlesinger
73 1984 George Orwell
74 Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression Herbert I. Schiller
75 Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain Jean Seaton; James Curran
76 The Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru
77 Accumulation and Power: Economic History of the United States Richard B. DuBoff
78 The Record of the Paper: How the “New York Times” Misreports US Foreign Policy Richard A. Falk; Howard Friel
79 Worlds in Collision Ken Booth; Tim Dunne; Kenneth N. Waltz
80 The State of the World’s Children: 1997 UNICEF
81 The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam Daniel C. Hallin
82 Web Of Deceit: Britain’s Real Foreign Policy: Britain’s Real Role in the World Mark Curtis
83 Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo Miranda Vickers
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 East Timor: The Price of Freedom John G. Taylor
87 The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976 Stephen G. Rabe
88 Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War Franz Borkenau
89 Empire of Fortune Francis Jennings
90 Nicaragua: The Price of Intervention : Reagan’s Wars Against the Sandinistas Peter Kornbluh
91 Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke
92 The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11 Strobe Talbott; Nayan Chanda
93 Washington’s War on Nicaragua Holly Sklar
94 Arguing About War Michael Walzer
95 Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an Evolving World Order Sean D. Murphy
96 The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials Telford Taylor
97 Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala Stephen C. Schlesinger; Stephen Kinzer
98 Mark Twain’s Weapons of Satire: Antiimperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War Mark Twain; Jim Zwick
99 Panic Rules: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy Robin Hahnel
100 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