Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams

Literature & Fiction

David K. Shipler

Genre Fiction

Macdonald

<p>(RUSSIA: BROKEN IDOLS, SOLEMN DREAMS is a new classic on the Soviet world its people, their daily lives and the political realities. David K. Shipler was the New York Times' chief correspondent in the USSR from 1974-9; he came to his subject free of prejudice and open to every nuance of the population within whose midst he was charmed, tricked, tempted and disabused of preconceptions. In this vastly entertaining book he covers every aspect of contemporary Russia and brings vividly to life a society far more complex than appearances and much Western ommentary would suggest. Reporting at its best... Shipler has gotten under the skin of Russia, stripped away its mystery and offered a fascinating and eminently readable human story Hedrick Smith, author of The Russians Takes his readers on a splendid voyage to a little-known land: the Soviet psyche. Averell Harriman Essential reading for anybody interested in the Russian people: a profoundly perceptive study, written with a novelist's eye for anecdote and the telling detail Standard. An observant and beautifully written account... sensitive and compassionate. New York Times Book Review)</p>

'RUSSIA: BROKEN IDOLS, SOLEMN DREAMS'

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Futura Books

Arab and Jew : Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Religion & Spirituality

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America. With his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories―sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar―Shipler's investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy. Focusing on recent free-speech controversies across the nation, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches' tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national security reporters using techniques more common in dictatorships to avoid leak prosecution; a Washington, DC, Jewish theater's struggle for creative control in the face of protests targeting productions critical of Israel; history teachers in Texas quietly bypassing a reactionary curriculum to give students access to unapproved perspectives; the mixed blessings of the Internet as a forum for dialogue about race. These and other stories coalesce to reveal the systemic patterns of both suppression and opportunity that are making today a transitional moment for the future of one of our founding principles. Measured yet sweeping, Freedom of Speech brilliantly reveals the triumphs and challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of free expression in modern America.

Freedom of Speech

Constitutional Law

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Underworld of America - working poor (2007) ISBN: 4000257595 [Japanese Import]

KoÌ„ji Morioka

Hiroshi Kawahito

Misako Hida

ToÌ„kyoÌ„ : Iwanami Shoten, 2007

Car washers have no car to drive; only 2.02 dollars lay in the account of a bank clerk; ten years of income of a female editor of medical textbook will not reach the income of a dentist The Working Poor (Translated Documentary) tells their stories: their families, their dreams and their failures. Their country is even more lamentable than those people. Even though America welcomes its unprecedented wealth, it sings high praise for the belief of ""laboring to get rich"", the problems involved with low-income citizens questioned on all of those prosperous situations.

The Working Poor (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai Translation Publishing House

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