The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Autor Timothy Garton Ashen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 1993
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780679740483
ISBN-10: 0679740481
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 132 x 204 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
ISBN-10: 0679740481
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 132 x 204 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Recenzii
"[Garton Ash's] own involvement in these events, intellectual and emotional, is of such intensity that he can speak...from the inside as well as from the outside. Yet the sense of historic dimension...is never lost. And the quality of the writing places it clearly in the category of good literature." -- George Kennan
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory -- or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power.
In this book -- now with a new Afterword by the author -- Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come.
"Along with the historian's long view, Gatton Ash has an eye and an ear for the telling detail." -- Washington Past Book World
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory -- or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power.
In this book -- now with a new Afterword by the author -- Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come.
"Along with the historian's long view, Gatton Ash has an eye and an ear for the telling detail." -- Washington Past Book World
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The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory--or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with sympathy and power.
Notă biografică
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of ten books of “history of the present” which have explored many facets of Europe over the last half-century. He is Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He also writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, amongst other journals. His books include The File: A Personal History, In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent and, most recently, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. Awards he has received for his writing include the International Charlemagne Prize and the George Orwell Prize. The Magic Lantern, originally published in 1990, has been translated into twenty languages.
Cuprins
Witness and History
Warsaw: The First Election
Budapest: The Last Funeral
Berlin: Wall's End
Prague: Inside the Magic Lantern
The Year of Truth
Afterword to the Vintage Edition:
“Thirty Years On—Time for a New Liberation?”
Warsaw: The First Election
Budapest: The Last Funeral
Berlin: Wall's End
Prague: Inside the Magic Lantern
The Year of Truth
Afterword to the Vintage Edition:
“Thirty Years On—Time for a New Liberation?”
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A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of these epochal events.
A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of these epochal events.