The Magic Lantern
Registered by 
Cordelia-anne
of Decatur, Georgia USA on 11/21/2018
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
Cordelia-anne of Decatur, Georgia USA on 11/21/2018 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
A family member leaving for the Pacific Rim left this book with me to pass along. I've decided to pass it along in BookCrossing.
Review
"[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 Publisher
"A wonderful combination of first-class reporting, brilliant political analysis and reflection."--The New York Times Book Review
Review
"[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 Publisher
"A wonderful combination of first-class reporting, brilliant political analysis and reflection."--The New York Times Book Review
Journal Entry 2 by Cordelia-anne at -- Wild released somewhere in the state, Georgia USA on Monday, September 9, 2019
Cordelia-anne at -- Wild released somewhere in the state, Georgia USA on Monday, September 9, 2019
The fall of the Iron Curtain was one of the most amazing events that I've witnessed in my lifetime. It's sad that now so many seem to have forgotten it--or to have forgotten it's significance.
Journal Entry 3 by Cordelia-anne at Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur, Georgia USA on Monday, September 9, 2019
Cordelia-anne at Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur, Georgia USA on Monday, September 9, 2019
Hello! I left this book as a gift from BookCrossing, a random community of book lovers, to honor the wonderful Eagle Eye Bookshop and its community. Last month, vandals struck the charity bookshop outside the store where I left this book. Kind people of the neighborhood restored the extra bookshop before the staff was aware of the vandalism. What a wonderful neighborhood; what a wonderful bookstore! That said, if you'd like to join the BookCrossing story of this book and its community, please make a journal entry at our site with the BCID (bookcrossing ID) on the bookplate. BookCrossing is free to join and confidential. Tell us anything you'd like to share about this book.
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