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Best of times, worst of times : memoirs of a political education / Walter Laqueur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laqueur, Walter, 1921-2018.
- Series:
- Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
- The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laqueur, Walter, 1921-2018.
- Laqueur, Walter.
- Laqueur, Walter, 1921-2018--Political and social views.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, [2009]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Surfeit of Politics; or, Why I Would Have Preferred the Nineteenth Century 1
- Chapter 2 Growing Up under the Nazis; or, Why One Had to Be There to Understand It 33
- Chapter 3 Marxism, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War; or, The Dream That Failed 59
- Chapter 4 The Downfall and Partial Resurgence of the Soviet Empire; or, The Strange Fortunes of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, "Finlandization," and Putinism 86
- Chapter 5 A Middle East Education; or, Reflections on Arabia, Israel, Zionism, and Antisemitism 122
- Chapter 6 Think Tanks and Political Intelligence; or, Why It Is So Difficult to Predict 149
- Chapter 7 Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism; or, What Systematic Study and Theory Can Mean 171
- Chapter 8 Europe, 1945-2008; or, A Short Study in Hope and Frustration 201.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- "Works by Walter Laqueur": pages [225]-227.
- ISBN:
- 9781584657989
- 1584657987
- OCLC:
- 318672856
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