Letters from Lexington

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First edition
(publ. Common Courage Press)

Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda, first published in 1993, contains Noam Chomsky's criticism of the American media. The articles are available in parts on the Noam Chomsky Archive.

Contents[]

Foreword by Edward S. Herman

What Makes the Mainstream Media Mainstream
The Middle East Lie
Defensive Aggression
The Sunday Times Makes for a Day of No Rest
Notes on the Culture of Democracy
Third World, First Threat
Yearning for Democracy
Apostles of Nonviolence
UN = US
Postscript: "Riding Moynihan's Hobby Horse"
Our "Sense of Moral Purpose"
"We the People"
Bringing Peace
The Burdens of Responsibility
The Death and Life of Stalinism
Toxic Omissions
"Fiendish Acts"
The PC Thought Police
Rest in Peace
Class struggle as Usual

External links[]

Chomsky's Letters at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2005-04-21)
Noam Chomsky Archive at the Wayback Machine (archived 1999-05-08)
ZNet

Noam Chomsky

Select
bibliography

Linguistics	Syntactic Structures (1957) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) Cartesian Linguistics (1966) Language and Mind (1966) The Sound Pattern of English (1968) "Remarks on Nominalization" (1970) "Conditions on Transformations" (1973) Reflections on Language (1975) The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1975) Lectures on Government and Binding (1981) Knowledge of Language (1986) The Minimalist Program (1995) (2000)
Politics	"The Responsibility of Intellectuals" (1967) American Power and the New Mandarins (1969) Counter-Revolutionary Violence (1973), with Edward S. Herman The Fateful Triangle (1983) Manufacturing Consent (1988), with Edward S. Herman Necessary Illusions (1989) Deterring Democracy (1991) Letters from Lexington (1993) The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993) World Orders Old and New (1994) Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship (1997) Hegemony or Survival (2003) Failed States (2006) Requiem for the American Dream (2017)
Collections	Class Warfare (1996) Middle East Illusions (2003) Imperial Ambitions (2005) Interventions (2007) Gaza in Crisis (2010) 9-11: Was There An Alternative? (2011) Making the Future (2012) Occupy (2012) (2015), with Ilan Pappé

Filmography

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Last Party 2000 (2001)
(2002)
(2003)
(2003) (TV)
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004)
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

Family

William Chomsky (father)
Carol Chomsky (wife)
Aviva Chomsky (daughter)

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