Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Sharansky, Natan

ISBN 10: 158648513X / ISBN 13: 9781586485139

Edité par PublicAffairs, 2008

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Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated ?To Jonathan and Penina (?). Best wishes? by the author on the 1st free endpaper. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete numberline. Dust jacket has a crease in the front inner fold. Book has mild softening to the base of the spine. Sharansky is a Russian refusednik, Israeli politician, human rights activist, and head of the Jewish Agency. He is the subject of numerous documentaries and is the recipient of the Israel Prize, the Genesis Prize, Henrietta Szold Award, Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, US Congressional Gold Medal, and US Presidential Medal of Freedom, and is the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of ?Fear No Evil? and ?The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror?. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 158648513X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781586485139
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice?

Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. Better to have hostile identities framed by democracy than democrats indifferent to identity.

In a vigorous, insightful challenge to the left and right alike, Natan Sharansky, as he has proved repeatedly, is at the leading edge of the issues that frame our times.

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Natan Sharansky, former Soviet dissident, political prisoner, and human rights icon, has spent his life championing democracy and freedom. In 1977, he was arrested by the KGB for his activism and his support for Soviet Jew' demands to emigrate to Israel and imprisoned for nine years. He is the author of Fear No Evil and The Case for Democracy. Sharansky has served as a senior minister in the Israeli government, and now heads The Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies.