How long does it take to read Understanding Power?
the indispensable Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel
Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Understanding Power gathers Noam Chomsky's spoken words from a decade of public appearances between 1989 and 1999. None of the material had appeared in print before. It draws on seminars, lectures and audience question sessions held across the United States and Canada, and two public defenders from New York, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel, arranged and edited it. The ten chapters take up themes such as ruling the world, community activists, intellectuals and social change, popular struggle and movement organizing, with a closing section titled Turning Point.
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Subjects: Interviews, Political and social views, Political science, Current affairs
