Reflections on a Ravaged Century - Brossura

Conquest, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393320863 ISBN 13: 9780393320862

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001

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A look at the twentieth century examines the factors and events that have sent millions to their deaths, discussing the philosophies that have caused so much conflict, as well as what the future may hold for the human race. Winner of the Ingersoll Prize & the Richard M. Weaver Prize. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian." As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century's cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism. The final, sobering chapters of Reflections on a Ravaged Century concern themselves with some coming storms, notably that of the European Union, which Conquest believes is an economic, cultural, and geographical misconception divisive of the West and doomed to failure. Winner of the Ingersoll Prize; winner of the Richard M. Weaver Prize; a New York Times Notable Book. "Provides many glowing embers of reasoned and wise argument."-Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A book that ought to be required reading for everyone about to enter college, and by every member of Congress."-Frank Wilson, Philadelphia Inquirer

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393320863
• ISBN 13: 9780393320862
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 317