Isbn: 9780802085009 - love, hate, and fear in canada's cold war (2 risultati)

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Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> June 19, 1948 For this is a conspiratorial age. Power is running in new channels. This is still only true of half the world, but will that half corrupt the other? Is this one of the clues to what is going on around us? Where there is power there is also conspiracy? Perhaps this has been true in the most respectable parliamentary democracies, but there are conspiracies and conspiracies. What faces us now is something secret, violent, and fanatical, calling on all the excessive will - the inhuman, single-track obsession - which can apparently be found in the most commonplace men. The professor turned communist - the prostitute turned spy - the public-school boy turned secret agent. Could this not become a new form of excitement as necessary to the nerves as smoking? . Is a new pattern developing? Is this a by- product of the omnipotent state? Does it not go on under ministries where the civil servants increasingly control the lives of nations? Is part of our rage against communism the rage of Caliban at seeing his o.…