Description: "A conversation between public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire"--
Brief description:
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language, Understanding Power (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, Towards a New Cold War, The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove), On Anarchism, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (with Michel Foucault), and The Withdrawal and On Cuba (both with Vijay Prashad), all published by The New Press. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil.
Review Quotes:
Praise for On Cuba:
"A welcome and timely addition to any library by two formidable experts of international politics. . . . Chomsky and Prashad pack a multitude of facts and discourse you won't find in the mainstream media into this excellent short book."
-Cuba Si
"A strong, left-leaning history of the U.S. government's long-standing vendetta against Cuba."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Chomsky and Prashad describe Cuba as 'a socialist model for the rest of the Third World.' They might have left out the word 'Third.'"
--Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, musician, and activist
"Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad have written a must-read indictment of the illegal and inhumane U.S. blockade of Cuba and an incisive examination of the socialist innovations of the Cuban Revolution."
--Brinda Karat, Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)