Author: Henry Regnery
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780895268020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The forthright yet unassuming and engagingly honest memoirs of a publisher whose controversial books on domestic and foreign politics made his house a force to be reckoned with.
Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher
Author: Henry Regnery
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780895268020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The forthright yet unassuming and engagingly honest memoirs of a publisher whose controversial books on domestic and foreign politics made his house a force to be reckoned with.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780895268020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The forthright yet unassuming and engagingly honest memoirs of a publisher whose controversial books on domestic and foreign politics made his house a force to be reckoned with.
Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher
Author: Henry Regnery
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780151737529
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The forthright yet unassuming and engagingly honest memoirs of a publisher whose controversial books on domestic and foreign politics made his publishing house a force to be reckoned with.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780151737529
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The forthright yet unassuming and engagingly honest memoirs of a publisher whose controversial books on domestic and foreign politics made his publishing house a force to be reckoned with.
My Life in Prison
Author: Qisheng Jiang
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442212225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In 1999, the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims. Drawn with indignant intensity from Jiang's time in prison, his memoirs offer compelling observations of two of the three modern, "civilized" Beijing jails in which he was held. Along with intriguing vignettes of his fellow prisoners, Jiang describes both brutally dehumanizing conditions and rare moments of unexpected kindness. Prisoners, used as slave labor, become "skinned" through malnutrition and exhaustion, while facing new depths of mental degradation. Throughout, however, Jiang retained his dignity, detached and perceptive intelligence, and concern for his fellow sufferers, guards included. Writing in his signature light and ironic style, Jiang's stories of prisoners, who come from the most primitive and impoverished layer of Chinese society, are related with vividness, insight, humor, and compassion. Dismayed by their fatalistic docility, the author asks, "Where lies China's hope? Can democracy ever take root in China?" The answers, surely, lie in the voices of those, like Jiang, who dare to speak out.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442212225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In 1999, the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims. Drawn with indignant intensity from Jiang's time in prison, his memoirs offer compelling observations of two of the three modern, "civilized" Beijing jails in which he was held. Along with intriguing vignettes of his fellow prisoners, Jiang describes both brutally dehumanizing conditions and rare moments of unexpected kindness. Prisoners, used as slave labor, become "skinned" through malnutrition and exhaustion, while facing new depths of mental degradation. Throughout, however, Jiang retained his dignity, detached and perceptive intelligence, and concern for his fellow sufferers, guards included. Writing in his signature light and ironic style, Jiang's stories of prisoners, who come from the most primitive and impoverished layer of Chinese society, are related with vividness, insight, humor, and compassion. Dismayed by their fatalistic docility, the author asks, "Where lies China's hope? Can democracy ever take root in China?" The answers, surely, lie in the voices of those, like Jiang, who dare to speak out.
Death of a Dissident
Author: Alex Goldfarb
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471103013
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The first reports seemed absurd. A Russian dissident, formerly an employee of the KGB and its successor, the FSB, had seemingly been poisoned in a London hotel. As Alexander Litvinenko's condition worsened, however, and he was transferred to hospital and placed under armed guard, the story took a sinister turn. On 23 November 2006, Litvinenko died, apparently from polonium-210 radiation poisoning. He himself, in a dramatic statement from his deathbed, accused his former employers at the Kremlin of being responsible for his murder. Who was Alexander Litvinenko? What had happened in Russia since the end of the Cold War to make his life there untenable, and even in severe jeopardy in Britain? How did he really die, and who killed him? In his spokesman and close friend, Alex Goldfarb, and widow Marina, we have two people who know more than anyone about the real Sasha Litvinenko, and about his murder. Their riveting book sheds astonishing light not just on these strange and troubling events but also on the biggest crisis in relations with Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471103013
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The first reports seemed absurd. A Russian dissident, formerly an employee of the KGB and its successor, the FSB, had seemingly been poisoned in a London hotel. As Alexander Litvinenko's condition worsened, however, and he was transferred to hospital and placed under armed guard, the story took a sinister turn. On 23 November 2006, Litvinenko died, apparently from polonium-210 radiation poisoning. He himself, in a dramatic statement from his deathbed, accused his former employers at the Kremlin of being responsible for his murder. Who was Alexander Litvinenko? What had happened in Russia since the end of the Cold War to make his life there untenable, and even in severe jeopardy in Britain? How did he really die, and who killed him? In his spokesman and close friend, Alex Goldfarb, and widow Marina, we have two people who know more than anyone about the real Sasha Litvinenko, and about his murder. Their riveting book sheds astonishing light not just on these strange and troubling events but also on the biggest crisis in relations with Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Unbroken Spirits
Author: Sŭng Sŏ
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742501225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This is the remarkable and wrenching memoir of a South Korean dissident who was unjustly accused of spying for the North Koreans and jailed for nineteen years as a political prisoner. The updated English-language edition traces Suh Sung's experiences as a Korean citizen of Japan before his incarceration, his time in prison, and his subsequent release. Readers will be moved and awed by Suh's courage under torture and solitary confinement. This memoir is an invaluable document for all concerned about human rights and a moving testimony to one man's incredible determination.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742501225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This is the remarkable and wrenching memoir of a South Korean dissident who was unjustly accused of spying for the North Koreans and jailed for nineteen years as a political prisoner. The updated English-language edition traces Suh Sung's experiences as a Korean citizen of Japan before his incarceration, his time in prison, and his subsequent release. Readers will be moved and awed by Suh's courage under torture and solitary confinement. This memoir is an invaluable document for all concerned about human rights and a moving testimony to one man's incredible determination.
West-Bloc Dissident
Author: William Blum
Publisher: Soft Skull
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the 1960s, after four years with IBM and two more with the U.S. State Department, William Blum became a radical dissident. As an insider in two worlds, he is well suited to assess the people, events, and ideology of both the “bourgeois” and “radical” cultures. In West-Bloc Dissident, Blum brings unexpected wit and insight to his portrayals of both sides of the ideological fence. He draws unsparing portraits of his movement comrades Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and others. An anti-war activist, he takes on the CIA, FBI, State Department, and police. Also included are firsthand accounts of everything from the underground press to Salvador Allende’s Chile.
Publisher: Soft Skull
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the 1960s, after four years with IBM and two more with the U.S. State Department, William Blum became a radical dissident. As an insider in two worlds, he is well suited to assess the people, events, and ideology of both the “bourgeois” and “radical” cultures. In West-Bloc Dissident, Blum brings unexpected wit and insight to his portrayals of both sides of the ideological fence. He draws unsparing portraits of his movement comrades Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and others. An anti-war activist, he takes on the CIA, FBI, State Department, and police. Also included are firsthand accounts of everything from the underground press to Salvador Allende’s Chile.
Hungochani
Author: Marc Epprecht
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773527515
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773527515
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.
Dangerous Thoughts
Author: Yuri Orlov
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In this highly personal memoir, Yuri Orlov, celebrated scientist and human rights activist, recalls his life in pre-Glasnost Russia. He describes his days as a young man under Stalin, the persecution of his friends Sakharov and Scharansky, and his release from exile, in the famous spy for dissident swap arranged by the U.S., which generated international headlines.
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In this highly personal memoir, Yuri Orlov, celebrated scientist and human rights activist, recalls his life in pre-Glasnost Russia. He describes his days as a young man under Stalin, the persecution of his friends Sakharov and Scharansky, and his release from exile, in the famous spy for dissident swap arranged by the U.S., which generated international headlines.
To Catch a Tartar
Author: Francis T. Seow
Publisher: Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies
ISBN: 9780938692560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Publisher: Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies
ISBN: 9780938692560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Universe Behind Barbed Wire
Author: Miroslav Marinovič
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580469817
Category : Dissenters
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580469817
Category : Dissenters
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.