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

Ash, Timothy Garton

ISBN 10: 0394588843 / ISBN 13: 9780394588841

Published by Random House, 1990

About this Item

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

Seller Inventory # BSM.OO9A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394588843
• ISBN 13: 9780394588841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

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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.

From the Publisher

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