Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name - Couverture souple

Ash

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848870914 ISBN 13 : 9781848870918

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2010

Synopsis

'Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies... He writes masterfully and with compassion' - Neal Ascherson, Observer

For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. Facts are Subversive, which collects his writings since the millennium, addresses some of the crucial questions of our time: what happens to people who have endured long dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of different faiths and ethnicities?

This is history of the present on a scale by turns panoramic and human: urgent, exhilarating and necessary.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing - 'history of the present' - which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last three decades. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, where he is Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and his weekly column for the Guardian is widely syndicated across Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has received many awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham Award and the Orwell Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848870914
• ISBN 13: 9781848870918
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible