In Make-believe Media, Parenti turns his eye to entertainment for an absorbing, challenging look at the way America's "free and independent" television and film industries actually promote the ideas of the economic and political forces that control them.

Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Some of his writings have been translated into Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.