Research Catalog

Title

Political awakenings : conversations with history / Harry Kreisler.

Publication

New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kreisler, Harry.
• University of California, Berkeley. Institute of International Studies.

Description

xi, 286 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Collects interviews with a diverse group of influential writers and activists and showcases their reflections on the experiences that shaped their political commitments.

Subject

• Since 1945
• World politics > 1945-1989 > Sources
• History, Modern > 1945-1989 > Sources
• World politics > 1989- > Sources
• History, Modern > 1989- > Sources
• Political activists > Interviews
• Politicians > Interviews
• Journalists > Interviews
• Oral history

Genre/Form

• oral histories (literary works)
• Oral histories
• Interviews
• Sources
• Histoires orales.

Note

• "Interviews with twenty of the world's most influential writers, thinkers, and activists."
• History archive is maintained by the Institute of International Studies of the University of California, Berkeley.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Protest and change -- Noam Chomsky -- Daniel Ellsberg -- Listening to people -- Elizabeth Warren -- Ron Dellums -- Sciend, food, and the environment: movements for justice -- Michael Pollan -- Eva Harris -- Oronto Douglas -- Seeking truth -- Amira Hass -- Jane Mayer -- Empire and hegemony -- Ahmed Rashid -- Chalmers Johnson -- Tariq Ali -- Resistance through art -- Roya Hakakian -- Oliver Stone -- Kenzaburo Oe -- Human rights and the law -- Albie Sachs -- Shirin Ebadi -- Philippe Sands -- Radical insights through history -- Joan Wallach Scott -- Howard Zinn.

ISBN

• 9781595583406 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1595583408 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009036808

OCLC

317452859

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library