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"For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. Facts are Subversive, which collects his writings since the millennium, addresses some of the crucial questions of our time: what happens to people who have endured long dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of different faiths and ethnicities? This is history of the pr."@en
"Contains Garton Ash's eye-witness accounts of the fate of countries making the transition from dictatorship to democracy, and dispatches from places that have yet to make the transition. A recurring theme is freedom and its discontents. The essays can be thought of as history of the present."
""Timothy Garton Ash is well known as an astute and penetrating writer on 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 past 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."--Jacket."@en
"The author 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, Gunter Grass's membership in the Waffen -SS, or the angry youth of Iran, he combines a gimlet eye for detail with deep knowledge of the history of his chosen subjects. Running through this book is his insistence that, whatever some postmodernists might claim, there are indeed facts, and we have both a political and a moral duty to establish them"

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"Facts are subversive : political writing from a decade without a name"@en
"Facts are subversive : political writing from a decade without a name"
"Facts are subversive political writing from a decade without a name"
"Facts are subversive political writing from a decade without a name"@en
"Facts are Subversive Political Writing from a Decade without a Name"@en
"Jahrhundertwende weltpolitische Betrachtungen ; 2000-2010"
"Los hechos son subversivos : ideas y personajes para una década sin nombre"
"Los hechos son subversivos : ideas y personajes para una década sin nombre"@es
"Jahrhundertwende : weltpolitische Betrachtungen 2000-2010"
"Jahrhundertwende : weltpolitische Betrachtungen 2000 - 2010"
"Los Hechos son subversivos : ideas y personajes para una década sin nombre"

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