Book Series Guide

Author guide

Edward S. Herman Books in Order

Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) was an American economist, finance professor, media scholar, and social critic. He taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and co-developed the propaganda model of mass media with Noam Chomsky. His books addressed banking, corporate power, U.S. foreign policy, political violence, propaganda, and the media.

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Cover of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Herman's best-known examination of corporate media and the propaganda model.

Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study

A concise entry point into his political-economy analysis of corporate power.

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Books by series

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The Political Economy of Human Rights

A two-volume study, co-authored with Noam Chomsky, of state violence, human rights, foreign policy, and media treatment of international conflicts.

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  1. 1 Cover of The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

    Book 1 · nonfiction · 1979

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  2. 2 Cover of After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology
    After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology

    Book 2 · nonfiction · 1979

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (15)
  1. America's Vietnam Policy: The Strategy of Deception

    nonfiction · 1966

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  2. Atrocities in Vietnam: Myths and Realities

    nonfiction · 1970

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  3. Cover of Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda
    Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda

    nonfiction · 1973

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  4. Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study

    nonfiction · 1981

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  5. The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

    nonfiction · 1982

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  6. Cover of Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador
    Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador

    nonfiction · 1984

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  7. The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection

    nonfiction · 1986

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  8. The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror

    nonfiction · 1989

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  9. Hope & Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945–1985

    nonfiction · 1989

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  10. Cover of Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda, Including A Doublespeak Dictionary for the 1990s
    Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda, Including A Doublespeak Dictionary for the 1990s

    nonfiction · 1992

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  11. Cover of The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism
    The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism

    nonfiction · 1997

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  12. Cover of The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
    The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic

    nonfiction · 2004

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  13. Cover of The Politics of Genocide
    The Politics of Genocide

    nonfiction · 2010

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  14. Cover of Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later
    Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later

    nonfiction · 2014

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Nonfiction (1)
  1. The Great Society Dictionary

    reference · 1968

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Essays and speeches (3)
  1. Triumph of the Market: Essays on Economics, Politics, and the Media

    essay_collection · 1995

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  2. The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader

    essay_collection · 1999

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  3. Like a Cuttlefish Spurting Out Ink: Studies in the Art of Deceit

    essay_collection · 2019

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Edited works (1)
  1. Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis

    edited_collection · 2000

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Other (3)
  1. Money and Banking: Analysis and Policy

    textbook · 1963

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  2. Conflicts of Interest, Commercial Bank Trust Departments: Report to the Twentieth Century Fund Steering Committee on Conflicts of Interest in the Securities Markets

    report · 1975

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  3. Banking Structure and Performance

    report · 1967

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