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The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia Hardcover - 2004

by William Pfaff

The syndicated political columnist relates the dramatic, untold story of the roots of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism which took the lives of hundreds of millions in the 20th century, as well as of today's fundamentalist terrorism.


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If the past is prologue, one can read in The Bullet's Song the story of the roots of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism that took the lives of hundreds of millions in Europe and Asia in the 20th century, affected the United States radically, and which goes directly to the terrorism and violence of the Middle East today. Pfaff begins with the Italian Futurists of the 1920s, who glorified war and embraced Benito Mussolini, who militarized Italy and combined nationalism with socialism--the two most volatile innovations of the century.

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This book tells a story about the twentieth century, which has in it a lesson for the twenty-first-one that I would think unlikely to be learned, since it is a moral lesson, concerning the role of virtue in human existence, and we know about moral lessons.

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  • Title The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia
  • Author William Pfaff
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 2004-11-01
  • ISBN 9780684809076 / 0684809079
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.35 x 1.24 in (23.42 x 16.13 x 3.15 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Social history - 20th century, Radicalism - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004049167
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.609

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/15/2004, Page 369
  • Choice, 05/01/2005, Page 1646
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2004, Page 905
  • New York Review of Books, 05/26/2005, Page 8
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/04/2004, Page 79

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William Pfaff is a political columnist for The International Herald Tribune, London's The Observer, and other newspapers. A political essayist for The New Yorker from 1971 to 1992, he is the author of eight previous books, including Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the City of Geneva's Prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He lives in Par
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