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Embarrassment of Tyrannies 25 Years of Index On Censorship by W L Webb, Rose Bell

Embarrassment of Tyrannies 25 Years of Index On Censorship by W L Webb, Rose Bell

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Collected here are sixty-two powerful and often terrifying pieces selected from Index on Censorship's twenty-five years' worth of issues documenting and condemning tyranny.

The writings, many by such renowned authors as Nadine Gordimer, Arthur Miller, and Julio Cortazar, cover the issues with careful even-handedness. Ariel Dorfman writes from the experience of the Chilean dictatorship and imagines a training course for salesmen of torture equipment; Alexander Solzhenitsyn has a fragment of poetry recalling his own period in a labor camp in Kazakhstan; Wale Soginka writes powerfully in defense of Salman Rushie'a truly disturbing piece.

A great tribute to Index's achievements, this collection celebrates without being self-congratulatory. Its contributors provide elegant testimony to the human spirit's capacity for survival and its continuing struggle for freedom.

Publisher: National Geographic Books
Publication date: 2000-05-30
Pages: 347
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780807614464-N
Dimensions: 236.0 x 157.0 x 27.0 mm
Weight: 0.557 kg View full details