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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
by Conquest, Robert; [Tamar Jacoby's copy]
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New condition/No jacket, as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0393048187
- ISBN 13
- 9780393048186
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. As New condition. Trade Paperback. 6" wide by 9.25" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Review Copy. Laid-in is a typed letter from the publisher to Tamar Jacoby [justice editor for Newsweek, deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute]. From the rear cover: "The main responsibility for our century's cataclysms, Conquest maintains, lies in impersonal economic and social forces like revolutionary Marxism and German National Socialism, and in the absolutist distortions with which these ideologies polluted human minds. Conquest finds the failure to understand these phenomena as epidemic in Western culture... Whether discussing Kierkegaard or Koestler or the disasters posed by the new European Economic Union, Conquest has remarkable ability to fuse literature and history, philosophy and prognostication, and presents here a grand synthesis of our century, seen through its most deeply flawed ideologies." . Advance Reading Copy [First Edition]. Softcover. As New condition/No jacket, as issued. 343pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Seller
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 004283
- Title
- Reflections on a Ravaged Century
- Author
- Conquest, Robert; [Tamar Jacoby's copy]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket, as issued
- Edition
- Advance Reading Copy [First Edition]
- ISBN 10
- 0393048187
- ISBN 13
- 9780393048186
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 343pp
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