A THOUSAND SMALL SANITIES: THE MORAL ADVENTURE OF LIBERALISM - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed And Dated (In The Year of Publication) by Adam Gopnik - ONLY SUCH SIGNED AND DATED COPY ONLINE

Gopnik, Adam (Author); Berlin, Isaiah; Eliot, George; Mill, John Stuart & Other Subjects

ISBN 10: 154169936X / ISBN 13: 9781541699366

Edité par New York, NY: Basic Books, 2019, 2019

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1st Printing. Signed. 250 pages. Published in 2019. Book-length account on subject. One of Adam Gopnik's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run by Basic Books as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Adam Gopnik's "A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism". The best short book on its subject ever written in our time. In three succinct, eloquent essays, here is the distillation of Adam Gopnik's ongoing reflections on liberalism that the liberal pantheon, from John Stuart Mill to Lionel Trilling, would have admired: "What Is Liberalism"; "Why The Right Hates Liberalism"; and "Why The Left Hates Liberalism". We live in a wretched and hapless time because we are caught between two extreme - and truly evil - ideologies: Right-wing fundamentalism and left-wing radicalism, which are, in the end, two sides of the same coin. Whereas liberalism is not "a political theory applied to life but life applied to political theory". Liberalism, in sum, is pragmatic and grounded in reality yet daring and humane. "Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, from 'Middlemarch' to the Civil Rights Movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: The search for radical change by humane measures. In an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Adam Gopnik collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "Adam Gopnik 2019". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-year dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ADAM GOPNIK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 154169936X.

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• Titre: A THOUSAND SMALL SANITIES: THE MORAL ADVENTURE OF LIBERALISM - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed And Dated (In The Year of Publication) by Adam Gopnik - ONLY SUCH SIGNED AND DATED COPY ONLINE
• Éditeur: New York, NY: Basic Books, 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 154169936X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781541699366
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.

Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.

A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history -- and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.

À propos de l'auteur

Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker; he has written for the magazine since 1986. Gopnik has three National Magazine awards, for essays and for criticism, and also a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March of 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. The author of numerous bestselling books, including Paris to the Moon, he lives in New York City.