Talking about a Revolution: Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bell Hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona Laduke, Manning Mara

by bell hooks and Howard Zinn

Book Overview

Keynote: A lively collection of short, original interviews with leading thinkersOn its twentieth anniversary, the South End Press collective has gathered the left's most prominent intellectuals for a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896085872
• ISBN13: 9780896085879
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: South End Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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a very important book, in a time when education and awareness is absolutely key, an incredible list of internationally-respected (blithering idiot reviewer opinions aside) leaders. First of all, these are not second-hand-dealers of information, they are leading activists, who were and are at the front-lines eg. in the anti-Vietnam war protests risking their 'glorified government jobs' in doing so. The above review shows a typically blatant, (and very American) hatred towards academia and critical thought. The academics who contribute to the book, are undoubtedly really concerned leaders who are devoting their lives to the causes they are writing about, and trying their best to fight for *realistic* solutions to the varied social, environmental and economic problems in America. You can find the bios of any of them on the internet so please feel free to do a little research on them. about the last reviewers attack on full employment, free education, free health care and so on...systematic studies have been done, time and time again, it's just American media won't show it. but it is hardly a complicated thing to look it up on google, wikipedia, the simplest searchs would double the above reviewer's iq. one finds it evident very quickly the huge differences in quality of health care between the US and all other developed countries, just check things like 'mortality rates due to inadequate health care', or even more basic 'life expectancy rates'. I will do a little research for you, a good indicator is the Human Poverty Index which ranks the most developed countries in the world on several factors: the USA has the highest probability of not surviving to age 60 of the 19 developed countries ranked.(11.6%) the best is 6.7% in Sweden. Undoubtedly related to the fact that the US has private health care and of course too many guns. the USa has the 4th highest percentage in functional illiteracy (20%)the best is Sweden which has 7,5%. (The above reviewer is an excellent stereotype of that functionally illiterate American). The USa has the highest percentage of its population below 50% of its median income (17%)the best is 5.4% in Finland. Latin Americans and Black Americans with the highest percentages in that group (as I demonstrate below). The overall poverty rate of the USa IS RANKED 17TH OF 19 COUNTRIES. (a score of 15.4) compare that to the country with the lowest poverty rate (Sweden with 6.3). I hope the reviewer looks it up and thinks before he writes next time. But wait, I'm not finished with educating. Black Americans and Hispanic Americans are indeed the poorest groups in America.Wikipedia source follows: While White Americans made up roughly 75.1% of all persons in 2000,[17] 87.93% of all households in the top 5% were headed by a person who identified as being White alone. Only 4.75% of all household in the top 5% were headed by someone who identified him or herself as being Hispanic or Latino of any race,[18] versus 12.5% of