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Yale University Press
October 2010
On Sale: October 19, 2010
464 pages
ISBN: 0300161174
EAN: 9780300161175
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Non-Fiction
Timothy Garton Ash is well known as an astute and
penetrating observer of a dazzling array of subjects, not
least through his many contributions to the New York Review
of Books. This collection of his essays from the last decade
reveals his knack for ferreting out exceptional insights
into a troubled world, often on the basis of firsthand
experience. Whether he is writing about how “liberalism” has
become a dirty word in American political discourse, the
problems of Muslim assimilation in Europe, Ukraine’s Orange
Revolution, Günter Grass’s membership in the Waffen-SS, or
the angry youth of Iran, Garton Ash combines a gimlet eye
for detail with deep knowledge of the history of his chosen
subjects.
Running through this book is the author’s insistence that,
whatever some postmodernists might claim, there are indeed
facts--and we have both a political and a moral duty to
establish them. By practicing what it preaches, Facts Are
Subversive shows why Timothy Garton Ash is one of the
world’s leading political writers.
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