Neal Ascherson

Games with Shadows (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and original series of arguments -the politics of 'Stonehenge': the UK's archaic and undemocratic constitution, and finally examines the temptations of state power in Mrs Thatcher's decade. Next, Ascherson takes us on a personal tour of Europe, 'the barbaric continent', exposing some ugly hatred and memories lurking beneath the cultured surface; he writes movingly about the courage and sacrifice that nations at their best can draw out. His meditations on Eastern Europe, 'Waltzing With Molotov', are exemplary for their critical sympathy. In the book's final section, a vivid and memorable collection of sectarians, spies, traitors, heroes, monsters and victims reveals a lot about fear and hope in the closing years of this dangerous century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448206025
• Artikelnr.: 38310848

Autorenporträt

Charles Neal Ascherson (born October 5, 1932) is a Scottish journalist and writer. He was born in Edinburgh and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. He was described by the historian Eric Hobsbawm as "perhaps the most brilliant student I ever had. I didn't really teach him much, I just let him get on with it."

After graduating with a starred First, he declined offers to pursue an academic career. Instead, he chose a career in journalism, first at the Manchester Guardian and then at The Scotsman (1959-1960), The Observer (1960-1990) and the Independent on Sunday (1990-1998). He contributed scripts for the 1974 documentary series World at War and the 1998 series The Cold War. In recent years, he has also been a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Neal Ascherson is a journalist and writer. He reported from Asia, Africa and Central Europe for the Observer. He contributes regularly to the New York Review and the LRB. His books include Black Sea, Games with Shadows and The Polish August.

Inhaltsangabe

I A Ruinous City Chords of Identity in a Minor Key The Nostalgia Game 'Tell
the Children...' The Lost World of Small-Town England Dead Houses Settlers
and Natives Caring Colonists Intelligentsia Wanted The English Bourgeoisie
The Spreading Slime Dracula in Britain Greater Privilege Hath No Man... The
English Riot Enforcing 'Culture' 'Don't Be Afraid - and Don't Steal!'
Scottish Contradictions Stonehenge and its Power Struggles The Means of
Grace, the Hope of Glory Secret Passions of the British II Druids: The
Politics of Unreformed Britain A Spectator Sport Policing the Market-Place
Druids Mr Gladstone the Land Raider Gladstone's Defeat and Our Loss Telling
Sid The Case for a Bill of Rights The No-Go Area A Dumb-Bell World
Thatcher's Dream Last Leader The Great Cash-In Capital The Land and the
People A Scottish Temple Coals in the Bath, Sun on the Brain Journalists
Behind the Wire Ancient Britons and the Republican Dream III Europe: A
Barbaric Continent Tiring the Romans Axel's Castles The Cost of Bitburg The
'Bildung' of Barbie The Death Doctors The Shadows Over France's Feast Greek
Civil War - Rambo-Style The Strange Death of the Peasantry Apartheid in
Europe Toads, Journalists, Cats and Policemen Frontiers IV Waltzing with
Molotov: Eastern Europe Gobachov's Gifts Changing Partners The Polish
Ghosts Pilsudski, or How to Ignore Defeat 1956: How Poland Got Away With It
Requiem for an Old Piano Banger Invisible Men The Berlin Wall as Holy
Monster Why Burning People is Always Wrong 'You Lose Freedom by Fighting
for It' Suffering Writing The Unsung Heroes of Chernobyl Russian Mist Dream
of Escape Bad Dreams V Consolations and Discontents Picts Brothers Nations
on Parade F3080 Exiles Terrorists Alive and Well Spies Traitors Witness
Critics Diaries Media Heroes Tempers Sex Precision Pity, Love and the
Accident of Birth The Good Soldier Schimek Remember Them in Song Sources