The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:William PfaffTheme:Chronological Period/20th CenturyPublish date:11/1/2004Pages:384
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780684809076ISBN-10:0684809079UPC:9780684809076Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Political Ideologies, Social HistoryBook Topic:20th Century, RadicalismSize:9.22 x 6.35 x 1.24 inchesWeight:0.722Product ID:SCZ23WZC42
If the past is prologue, one can read in The Bullet's Song the story of the roots of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism that took the lives of hundreds of millions in Europe and Asia in the 20th century, affected the United States radically, and which goes directly to the terrorism and violence of the Middle East today. Pfaff begins with the Italian Futurists of the 1920s, who glorified war and embraced Benito Mussolini, who militarized Italy and combined nationalism with socialism--the two most volatile innovations of the century.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780684809076ISBN-10:0684809079UPC:9780684809076Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Political Ideologies, Social HistoryBook Topic:20th Century, RadicalismSize:9.22 x 6.35 x 1.24 inchesWeight:0.722Product ID:SCZ23WZC42
William Pfaff is a political columnist for The International Herald Tribune, London's The Observer, and other newspapers. A political essayist for The New Yorker from 1971 to 1992, he is the author of eight previous books, including Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the City of Geneva's Prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He lives in Par
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