A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality Noam
Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear cold patient eye on
the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at
work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy shape ideology redesign the
economy shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes attack the solidarity of the people
let special interests run the regulators engineer election results use fear and the power of
the state to keep the rabble in line manufacture consent marginalize the population. In
Requiem for the American Dream Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles and
adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his
argument. To create Requiem for the American Dream Chomsky and his editors the filmmakers
Peter Hutchison Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott spent countless hours together over the course
of five years from 2011 to 2016. After the release of the film version Chomsky and the
editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included
three times as much text as was used in the film. The book that has resulted is nonetheless
arguably the most succinct and tightly woven of Chomsky's long career a beautiful
vessel--including old-fashioned ligatures in the typeface--in which to carry Chomsky's bold and
uncompromising vision his perspective on the economic reality and its impact on our political
and moral well-being as a nation. During the Great Depression which I'm old enough to remember
it was bad-much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this
somehow an expectation that things were going to get better . . . -from Requiem for the
American Dream
