The reading of Assassins of Memory is indispensable for all who yearn to salvage our democracy and contribute to the construction of a more humane world. By coupling a language of critique that denounces with a language of possibility that announces, Assassins of Memory is yet another testament of Paulo Freire's truism who, decades ago, wrote: “For Giroux, there is no hope without a future to be made, to be built, to be shaped.”

Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

We have entered the time of disappearances, where the ideas, concepts, and intellectual frameworks for understanding how the world works and the networks of power that profit from the system that dominates us are being elided, erased from our collective memory. It is, of course, only a small step from the disappearance of ideas to the disappearance of people who hold them. There is no better guide to this premeditated numbing of the mind than Henry Giroux, who navigates through our darkening political landscape with an unflinching moral clarity, illuminating a path toward both reclaiming the truth of our past and salvaging a more just future. Assassins of Memory is an urgently needed antidote to our perilous moment.

Jeffrey St. Clair, Editor of CounterPunch, author of "Born Under a Bad Sky"