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There's an unofficial reprint on Lulu I got a while ago. It's good quality.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-parenti/inventing-reality/paperback/product-4zy2gp.html
They are. There's actually a bunch of reprints in Lulu of other hard to find books. It's just a good site to check out when you run across a situation like Inventing Reality where originals can hit the hundreds.
For example, also found a copy of Tottle's Fraud, Famine, and Fascism.
They had new copies at the bookstore a couple years ago
I guess there is a more relevant foreword, yeah, but the main thing is that as a phrase I find it more precise and recognisable than 'inventing reality'. I love Parenti, and his strength is making things easy to understand from a common sense perspective, but that's my problem with 'inventing reality' as a phrase - used in conversation or academically, it's a combination of words that people from all sides of the political spectrum use for different reasons. Manufacturing Consent is a clear definition tied to Chomsky and his left-ish base.
It's worth reading both really. Open a mind in conversation with Parenti, then bring in the big term from Chomsky once you've got them where you want them.