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'Timothy Garton Ash is the best and most perceptive political writer of our time, and this book is a wonderful distillation of his thoughts on an extraordinary range of subjects. They were excellent as individual essays; put together like this, they shine the clearest of lights on an entire decade.' John Simpson
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For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. "Facts are Subversive", which collects his writings since the millennium, addresses some of the crucial questions of our time: what happens to people who have endured long dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of different faiths and ethnicities? This is history of the present on a scale by turns panoramic and human: urgent, exhilarating and necessary.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Timothy Garton Ash is one of those rare birds that can give extraordinary satisfaction to readers. He is one of the few people who have thought about things that I haven't thought about and that are deeply interesting. I know this does not sound well, but it is true.
It is a rare pleasure to learn something totally new, and Garton Ash is just the man to help you do that. I am an inveterate reader--I do not have a TV--and to me it is a great pleasure to read a familiar thought worded in a strikingly new way. How much more pleasing then it is to find sparkling new thoughts wrapped in fitting phrases.
I especially liked his piece on how Britain is part of Europe and the other one on whether and how the West deserves its position of supremacy on the world stage.
This is the best I have read anywhere.
Timothy Garton Ash has just received an honorary degree from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgiumand rightly so.
MelanieS, Belgium
It is a rare pleasure to learn something totally new, and Garton Ash is just the man to help you do that. I am an inveterate reader--I do not have a TV--and to me it is a great pleasure to read a familiar thought worded in a strikingly new way. How much more pleasing then it is to find sparkling new thoughts wrapped in fitting phrases.
I especially liked his piece on how Britain is part of Europe and the other one on whether and how the West deserves its position of supremacy on the world stage.
This is the best I have read anywhere.
Timothy Garton Ash has just received an honorary degree from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgiumand rightly so.
MelanieS, Belgium
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Here is a book which delves into topics of the utmost importance in a strikingly original, clear-eyed and penetrating manner. What is most satisfying, though, is the the realization that we are in the presence of a writer whose insights are free from particular ideological stances and are almost always balanced and multi-layered. The book is usefully divided into different sections, each of which comprises of articles and essays dedicated to exploring topics as diverse as Europe, Britain, America, revolutions and profiles of important writers and thinkers. The writings about Europe are particularly interesting and inspiring at a time when the concept of "Europeism, in which Garton Ash firmly believes, seems to be losing ground. In partricular, Garton Ash prides himself on being European and this is a sentiment i share with him. With the unfortunate passing of Tony Judt Timothy Garton Ash will most likely be a reference figure for political analysis in the coming years. It would be misleading to summarize a book which touches upon so many facts and ideas. Here suffice to say that if you enjoy political writing of the highest quality you coul do a lot worse than read this splendid volume.
4 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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TGA is a Europhile liberal who will annoy Eurosceptic torygraph types but can be penetratingly critical too. Wide-ranging and a little smart-arse flippant, but well worth a dip and skim, and the occasional deep-read.
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