Land Of Idols by Michael Parenti

Political Mythology in America

A sharp critique of U.S. political mythology that exposes how corporate media, elites, and institutions manufacture consent through myths about democracy, capitalism, national virtue, and anti-communism, while marginalizing dissent and disguising economic inequality and imperialist policies; the author unpacks historical and contemporary examples to show how ideology turns particular interests into assumed common sense and urges democratic revitalization through informed critique and popular struggle.