Passion and cunning: essays on nationalism, terrorism and revolution / Conor Cruise O'Brien
by O'Brien, Conor Cruise (1917-2008)
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- ISBN 13
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth over paper boards copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 293 p.; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Passion and cunning: an essay on the politics of W.B. Yeats -- Virtue and terror: Rousseau and Robespierre -- The liberal Pole: Pope John Paul II -- God and man in Nicaragua -- What can become of South Africa? -- South Africa and the academic boycott -- ""The Irish mind"": a bad case of cultural nationalism -- Bobby Sands: mutations of nationalism -- Ireland: the shirt of Nessus -- Thinking about terrorism: I -- Thinking about terrorism: II -- Press freedom and the need to please -- A neo-conservative ideologue: Norman Podhoretz -- Three Zionists: Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Katznelson -- The fall of Africa -- States of the Union. Subjects: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1939 Political and social views. World politics 1945-. Nationalism. Terrorism. Revolution. Genre: History.
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- Title
- Passion and cunning: essays on nationalism, terrorism and revolution / Conor Cruise O'Brien
- Author
- O'Brien, Conor Cruise (1917-2008)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671667246
- ISBN 13
- 9780671667245
- Publisher
- New York: Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
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