How long does it take to read Deterring Democracy?
Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky takes about 8 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 21 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 455 pages, about 125,125 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan ad more recently from newly prosperous countries elsewhere. In Deterring Democracy, the impassioned dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of this new imbalance. Chomsky reveals a world in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly to enforce its national interests--and in the process destroys weaker nations. The new world order (in which the New World give the orders) has arrived."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Política internacional, Política exterior, Foreign relations, Democracia, Relations extérieures, Politics and government
