- Paperback: 376 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) (1 Nov 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0395252237
- ISBN-13: 978-0395252239
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Probing interviews with fourteen contemporary political leaders, including Kissinger, Meir, Arafat, Indira Gandhi, and the Shah of Iran, reveal their personal attitudes and propensities and survey the workings of the leader in history.
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Format:Paperback
Plenty of insights from intelligent interviews conducted with the powerful in the 1970s. Highly recommended. (For students of Italian, the original Italian edition could be used as a language course).
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
The courage to speak truth to power
17 Sep 2006
Format:Hardcover
In these interviews Oriana Fallaci one of the most well- known journalists of the last half of the twentieth century confronted a whole host of powerful figures, including Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi, The Shah, Gaddafi, Arafat, Golda Meir, Deng Xiaoping. The book was published in 1976 and almost all of these leaders are no longer on the world - scene. Fallaci too through the years developed far different views than the ones she championed in this interview. In her latter years she concentrated on pointing out the danger to European Society and Civilization she felt an aggressive radical Islam presented.
But in these interviews too she is true to her own credo,
"I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."
Fallaci who covered wars throughout the world, and was almost killed more than once while doing so,had great personal courage and strong moral convinction.
She passed away in Sept . 2006. T
This present volume contains many of the interviews she is most famous for.
But in these interviews too she is true to her own credo,
"I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."
Fallaci who covered wars throughout the world, and was almost killed more than once while doing so,had great personal courage and strong moral convinction.
She passed away in Sept . 2006. T
This present volume contains many of the interviews she is most famous for.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Confronting Power
1 Jan 2009
Format:Paperback
This is a book that ought to be in every library. We can debate about whether Oriana Fallaci is an objective observer, or even whether her partisanship clouds her interviews - but she's a partisan for freedom - not ideology of any kind, and her passion transcends petty notions of objectivity when her goal is not to persuade us, but to let us see into the minds of those creating history. These interviews are historical gems. No journalist I have ever seen takes on tyrants and idealists like she did, and this time capsule of a book, with its snapshots in time in all its hysteria and fatalism and hubris - I cannot praise the book enough.
If you're interested in hearing from the leaders of the '70's in their own words, then this is a historian's goldmine.
If you're interested in hearing from the leaders of the '70's in their own words, then this is a historian's goldmine.
19 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Interesting
26 April 2001
Format:Paperback
Fallaci's weaknesses are also her strengths. She's so passionate a journalist, you get a rush off her energy. But her passion also clouds her objectivity, so she seems often fanatical in her opinions and attitudes. If you want to experience the equivalent of reading an arm-waving passionate Italian, this is a worthy book.
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