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According-to The-New-York-Times,-Noam-Chomsky-is-“arguably-the-most-important-intellectual-alive.”-But-he-isn’t-easy-to-read-.-.-.-or-at-least-he-wasn’t-until-these-books-came-along.-Made-up-of-intensively-edited-speeches-and-interviews,-they-offer-something-not-found-anywhere-else:-pure-Chomsky,-with-every-dazzling-idea-and-penetrating-insight-intact,-delivered-in-clear,-accessible,-reader-friendly-prose.Published-as-four-short-books-in-the-famous Real-Story series—What-Uncle-Sam-Really-Wants; The-Prosperous-Few-and-the-Restless-Many; Secrets,-Lies-and-Democracy;-and The-Common-Good—they’ve-collectively-sold-almost-600,000-copies.And-they-continue-to-sell-year-after-year-after-year-because-Chomsky’s-ideas-become,-if-anything, more relevant-as-time-goes-by.-For-example,-twenty-years-ago-he-pointed-out-that-“in-1970,-about-90%-of-international-capital-was-used-for-trade-and-long-term-investment—more-or-less-productive-things—and-10%-for-speculation.-By-1990,-those-figures-had-reversed.”-As-we-know,-speculation-continued-to-increase-exponentially.-We’re-paying-the-price-now-for-not-heeding-him-them.
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