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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Intended Audience
Adult
Inscribed
NO
ISBN
9780679740483
Book Title
Magic Lantern : the Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
1993
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
Timothy Garton Ash
Genre
History
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / General
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Width
5.1 in
Number of Pages
192 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679740481
ISBN-13
9780679740483
eBay Product ID (ePID)
163719

Product Key Features

Book Title
Magic Lantern : the Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / General
Genre
History
Author
Timothy Garton Ash
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-050611
Dewey Edition
20
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"[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, "[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 "Along with the historian's long view, Gatton Ash has an eye and an ear for the telling detail." -- Washington Past Book World, "[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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
947.085
Table Of Content
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?"
Synopsis
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."
LC Classification Number
DK274

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