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Games with Shadows (Paperback)
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Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the
world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of
being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and
private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and
original series of arguments -the politics of 'Stonehenge': the
UK's archaic and undemocratic constitution, and finally examines
the temptations of state power in Mrs Thatcher's decade. Next,
Ascherson takes us on a personal tour of Europe, 'the barbaric
continent', exposing some ugly hatred and memories lurking beneath
the cultured surface; he writes movingly about the courage and
sacrifice that nations at their best can draw out. His meditations
on Eastern Europe, 'Waltzing With Molotov', are exemplary for their
critical sympathy. In the book's final section, a vivid and
memorable collection of sectarians, spies, traitors, heroes,
monsters and victims reveals a lot about fear and hope in the
closing years of this dangerous century.
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