Requiem for the American dream

About “Requiem for the American dream”

Requiem for the American Dream is a 2017 book by Noam Chomsky that examines the ten principles of wealth and power concentration in the United States. These principles include reducing democracy, shaping ideology, redesigning the economy, shifting burdens to the poor and middle class, attacking solidarity, letting special interests control regulators, engineering election results, using fear and state power to control the public, manufacturing consent, and marginalizing the population. Chomsky devotes a chapter to each principle. The book was created over five years, from 2011 to 2016, by Chomsky and editors Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott. It includes three times as much text as the film version. The book is described as succinct and tightly woven, with a unique typeface, and presents Chomsky's analysis of economic reality and its impact on the nation's political and moral well-being.