America besieged
By: Michael Parenti.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences) -- United States.; Political participation -- United States.; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
Description: 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.

This book invites the reader to stop blaming the powerless and poor and, in that good old American phrase, start 'following the money.' That is the first and most important step toward lifting the siege and bringing democracy back to life."