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Power and the Idealists

Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath

By (author) Paul Berman
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: WW Norton & Co, United States
Published: 18th May 2007
Dimensions: w 120mm h 190mm d 20mm
Weight: 335g
ISBN-10: 0393330214
ISBN-13: 9780393330212
Barcode No: 9780393330212
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Synopsis
The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, decades later, many in that radical generation had come into conventional positions of power: among them Bill Clinton (who reportedly stayed up all night reading this book) and Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany. During a 1970s street protest, Fischer was photographed beating a cop to the ground; during the 1990s, he was supporting Clinton in a NATO-led military intervention in the Balkans. Here Paul Berman, "one of America's best exponents of recent intellectual history" (The Economist), masterfully traces the intellectual and moral evolution of an impassioned generation-and gives an acute analysis of what it means to go to war in the name of democracy and human rights.

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"Remarkable." -- Johann Hari - New York Times Book Review "Illuminating." -- Derek Chollet - Washington Post "The best extended political essay I have ever read...More than a contribution to the modern history of ideas, it is a work of art." -- Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968