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050	0	0	_aHN 90 _bP228a 1998
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100	1		_aParenti, Michael, _d1933-
245	1	0	_aAmerica besieged / _cMichael Parenti.
260			_aSan Francisco, CA : _bCity Lights Books, _c1998.
300			_ax, 205 p. ; _c19 cm.
505			_aAmerica besieged -- The evasion of politics -- The president as corporate salesman -- Our leaders don't know best -- Republicrats and Demopublicans -- The politics of sin -- Before we give away the post office -- The distribution of wealth -- Keeping the rich invisible -- A free market for whom? -- The myth of neutrality : technology and money -- Murder on the job -- A GATT to our heads -- Ecology for the money -- The national insecurity state -- Repressing the left -- Political murder, USA -- Saying "no" to legalized drugs -- Is conspiracy only a theory? -- Methods of media manipulation -- Pack punditry -- Is it sports or is it war? -- Kozy with the Klan -- "Inferior" people -- Pictures in our heads -- What is to be done (for starters)? -- We must fight city hall.
520			_a America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged, not from without but from within, not subverted from below but from above.
650		0	_aElite (Social sciences) _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPolitical participation _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _y1981-2001.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y1980-
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1993-2001.
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