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Michael Parenti

1933 - Today

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Michael John Parenti (born September 30, 1933) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Parenti has received more than 971,116 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Michael Parenti is the 5,975th most popular writer (down from 5,584th in 2019), the 9,639th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,733rd in 2019) and the 728th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Inventing Reality
Politieke aspecten, Political aspects of Mass media, Mass media
1985
Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies
Social classes, Power (social sciences), Wealth
2015
To Kill a Nation
History, Kosovo (Serbia) Civil War, 1998-1999, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
For ten years, US and NATO forces waged a campaign to dismember Yugoslavia, including 78 days of round-the-clock aerial attacks in 1999 that killed or injured upwards of six thousand people. Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished material (mostly Western sources) and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999 shortly after the bombings, Michael Parenti challenges the mainstream media demonization of Yugoslavia and the Serbs, and uncovers the real goals behind Western talk of “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “democracy.” To Kill A Nation reveals a decade-long disinformation campaign waged by Western leaders and NATO officials in their pursuit of free-market “reforms.” The political and economic destabilization of the former Yugoslavia continues today, Parenti shows, as does the forced privatization and Third Worldization of the entire region.
2000
The anti-communist impulse
Communist countries, Foreign relations
1969
Face of Imperialism
2015
Democracy for the few
Elite (Social sciences), Political participation, Politics and government
1974

Page views of Michael Parentis by language

Over the past year Michael Parenti has had the most page views in the with 151,483 views, followed by Spanish (5,365), and Portuguese (4,472). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (78.54%), Basque (66.02%), and Egyptian Arabic (32.98%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Parenti ranks 5,975 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter Lord, Teréz Karacs, Luisa Valenzuela, Kay Redfield Jamison, Simo Puupponen, and Farley Mowat. After him are Albert Sánchez Piñol, Tom Brokaw, Svetlana Makarovič, Edmund Gosse, William Bell Scott, and Vjenceslav Novak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Michael Parenti ranks 461. Before him are Irwin M. Jacobs, James Meredith, Anita Gradin, Daniel Massey, Milena Hübschmannová, and Lou Albano. After him are Janusz Sidło, Pete Wilson, Jonathan Penrose, Raúl Sánchez, David Storey, and Jean Boiteux.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Parenti ranks 9,639 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Augustus Young (1834), Kristy Swanson (1969), Joe Lovano (1952), John Hoyt (1905), Parker Stevenson (1952), and John Carroll (1735). After him are Joan Leslie (1925), Ben Harper (1969), Joseph Nicolosi (1947), Tom Brokaw (1940), Willie Brown (1900), and Jeff Stryker (1962).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Michael Parenti ranks 728. Before him are J. Michael Straczynski (1954), James Dickey (1923), Damon Lindelof (1973), Daniel Quinn (1935), Winston Churchill (1871), and Walter Lord (1917). After him are Tom Brokaw (1940), Richard Russo (1949), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), Gardner Fox (1911), W. S. Merwin (1927), and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896).

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