Power and the Idealists Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath

Name: Power and the Idealists Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath
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ISBN: 9780393330212

ISBN-10: 0393330214

ISBN-13: 9780393330212

Edition: 2007

Authors: Paul Berman, Richard Holbrooke

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The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968. The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, thirty-five years later, many in that radical generation had come into conventional positions of power: among them Bill Clinton (who reportedly stayed up all night reading this book) and Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany. During a 1970s street protest, Fischer was photographed beating a cop to the ground; during the 1990s, he was supporting Clinton in…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 0.44" wide x 0.74" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Foreword



The Passion of Joschka Fischer



The Fischer Affair Crosses the Ocean



The Muslim World and the American Left



Dr. Kouchner and Dr. Guevara



The '68ers and the Tragedy of Iraq


Index