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The magic lantern : the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague / Timothy Garton Ash.
Van Pelt Reserves Desk - First Floor DJK50 .G364 1999
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garton Ash, Timothy.
- Standardized Title:
- We the people
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe, Eastern--History--1945-1989.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Eastern Europe.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 169 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history 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 sympathy and power.
- Contents:
- Witness and history
- Warsaw: the first election
- Budapest: the last funeral
- Berlin: Wall's end
- Prague: insede the magic lantern
- The year of the truth
- Ten years after: afterword to the Vintage edition.
- Notes:
- "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, Cambridge, as 'We the people: The revolution of '89 witness [sic] in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague'"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0679740481
- 9780679740483
- OCLC:
- 45554840
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