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In the United States and much of the world there is ROBERT W. a palpable depression about the prospect of over- McCHESNEY coming the downward spiral created by the tyranny MEDIA, POLITICS, AND THE STRUGGLE of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly dem- FOR POST-CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY ocratic and sustainable society. In this incisive new book, award-winning author Robert W. McChesney argues that the weight of the present is blinding AVAILABLE NOW people to the changing nature, and the tremendous 272 pages possibilities, of the historical moment we inhabit. Cloth 978-1-58367-478-9 In Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century, $28.00 | £22.00 | $30.95Can McChesney uses a sophisticated political economic analysis to delineate the recent trajectory of capi- e-book available talism and its ongoing degeneration. McChesney reveals how notions of democratic media are becom- ing central to activists around the world seeking to establish post-capitalist democracies. 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