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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 and has also run for political office. Parenti is well known for his Marxist writings and lectures, and is an intellectual of the American Left. In the 2000s, he became embroiled in controversy when he claimed that Serbia's war crimes in the former Yugoslavia had been exaggerated in the Western press in order to justify NATO military intervention followed by privatization of the Serbian economy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Parenti is the 5,742nd most popular writer (up from 5,975th in 2019), the 9,453rd most popular biography from United States (up from 9,639th in 2019) and the 691st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Michael Parenti ranks 5,742 out of 7,302. Before him are Hanya Yanagihara, Wilhelm Genazino, Humphrey Carpenter, Timur Vermes, Dominique Bona, and János Batsányi. After him are Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Raffaele La Capria, Leena Krohn, Martín Luis Guzmán, Rói Patursson, and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes.

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Among people born in 1933, Michael Parenti ranks 442. Before him are Tim Conway, George J. Mitchell, Masae Kasai, Vincenzo Consolo, Horst Faas, and Jean Boiteux. After him are Pete Wilson, Penelope Lively, Tony Jay, William Blum, Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, and Annie Easley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Parenti ranks 9,455 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Carlisle (1914), Happy Rockefeller (1926), Rex Brown (1964), Little Crow (1810), Douglas Trumbull (1942), and Ricky Jay (1946). After him are Jenni Rivera (1969), Russell Westbrook (1988), Richard Dysart (1929), Peter Tork (1942), Will Yun Lee (1971), and Stephanie McMahon (1976).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Michael Parenti ranks 691. Before him are Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Lloyd C. Douglas (1877), Alexei Panshin (1940), Bill O'Reilly (1949), William Cullen Bryant (1794), and Hanya Yanagihara (1974). After him are Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Michael Shermer (1954), David Halberstam (1934), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Jacob Abbott (1803), and William Blum (1933).

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