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The Magic Lantern

By Ash, Timothy Garton

The Magic Lantern Politics & History

The Magic Lantern

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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. This book is a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose aftereffects are still being felt today. As Garton Ash writes in an incisive new afterword, from the perspective of three decades later: "Freedom's battle is never finally won. It must be fought anew in every generation."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
1993-08-31
Publication Date:
1993-08-31
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679740481
ISBN13:
9780679740483
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
249 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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