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Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czes¿aw Mi¿osz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Mi¿osz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.

Produktbeschreibung
Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czes¿aw Mi¿osz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Mi¿osz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.
Autorenporträt
Peter Dale Scott taught at Sedbergh School and McGill University before joining the Canadian Department of External Affairs and the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. Returning to academic life Peter Dale Scott taught at the University of California for over thirty years. Books by Peter Dale Scott include The War Conspiracy: The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War (1972), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection (1977), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993) and Deep Politics II: Essays on Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba (1996), Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (1998), Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (2003), The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (2008) and American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (2010)