If the past is prologue, one can read in The Bullet's Song the story of the roots of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism that took the lives of hundreds of millions in Europe and Asia in the 20th century, affected the United States radically, and which goes directly to the terrorism and violence of the Middle East today.
Pfaff begins with the Italian Futurists of the 1920s, who glorified war and embraced Benito Mussolini, who militarized Italy and combined nationalism with socialism--the two most volatile innovations of the century.
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Produkt-Hinweis
mit Schutzumschlag (bedruckt)
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black & white illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-684-80907-6 (9780684809076)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
William Pfaff is a political columnist for The International Herald Tribune, London's The Observer, and other newspapers. A political essayist for The New Yorker from 1971 to 1992, he is the author of eight previous books, including Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the City of Geneva's Prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He lives in Paris.
Contents
Introduction
1. Romanticism and Violence
2. Overture
Part One: Chivalry
3. The Fallen Hero
4. The Warrior
5. The Happy Man
Part Two: Utopias
6. The Mediterranean Superman
7. The Confidence Man
8. L'Homme Engagé
9. The Anti-Communist
10. Coda: The Romantic Revolutionary
Conclusion
11. Progress
Appendix: "Out-Münzenberging Münzenberg"
Bibliography
Index
