The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague - Hardcover

Ash, Timothy Garton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394588843 ISBN 13: 9780394588841

Publisher: Random House, 1990

Synopsis

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory -- or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power.

In this book -- now with a new Afterword by the author -- Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come.

About this title

From the Publisher

"A wonderful combination of first-class reporting, brilliant political analysis and reflection."--The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Timothy Garton Ash is a Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Celebrated for his essays in The New York Review of Books, he is the author of The Polish Revolution, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity, which won the Prix Européen de l’Essai; In Europe's Name; and The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness account of the Central European revolutions of 1989, which has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394588843
• ISBN 13: 9780394588841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156