Book cover for The magic lantern : the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw  Budapest  Berlin  and Prague

The magic lantern : the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw Budapest Berlin and Prague

Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN13: 9780679740483
Format: Classic Audio
Description
"[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<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> "Along with the historian's long view, Gatton Ash has an eye and an ear for the telling detail." -- Washington Past Book World<br /> <br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
Publisher Vintage Books
ISBN10 0679740481
ISBN13 9780679740483
Number of Pages 176
File Size DL-96MB
Shelf Number CG084
Grade Range
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download