Anthony Arnove, Colin Firth

The People Speak

Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport
Mitarbeit: Horspool, David

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful, inspiring and refreshing take on British history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780857864482
• ISBN-10: 0857864483
• Artikelnr.: 37715280

Autorenporträt

Colin Firth is a Bafta- and Academy Award-winning actor. His films include The English Patient, Fever Pitch, Bridget Jones's Diary, Girl with a Pearl Earring, A Single Man and The King's Speech. Alongside Anthony Arnove, he was instrumental in bringing a televised stage performance of The People Speak to the UK in 2010. Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, editor of Iraq Under Siege, Howard Zinn Speaks and The Essential Chomsky, and coauthor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States and Terrorism and War. He is the codirector of The People Speak with Chris Moore and Howard Zinn. David Horspool is a historian and editor at the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of two previous books: Why Alfred Burned the Cakes and The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties. He writes for The Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph and the New York Times.

Rezensionen

An extraordinary performance . . . a series of short, powerful, live pieces intended to remind audiences of the enduring power of politicised speech and . . . The end result is like a protest rally championing the act of protest itself Telegraph