Ghosts of Europe Central Europe's Past and Uncertain Future

Name: Ghosts of Europe Central Europe's Past and Uncertain Future
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ISBN: 9780312681227

ISBN-10: 0312681224

ISBN-13: 9780312681227

Edition: 2011

Authors: Anna Porter

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A publishing pioneer and former emigre's journey into the heart of Europe and the fragile state of democracy after the fall of CommunismMore than twenty years ago, the nations of central Europe rushed to reinvent themselves as capitalist societies. Anna Porter traveled to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia to interview the winners and the losers in this grand European transformation to ask: Is democracy working? Her probing encounters run the gamut from Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa and Radek Sikorski; to poor farmers betrayed by the new economy; to the wealthiest man in Hungary, a former Communist who capitalized on hurried privatizations; to the generation of twenty-somethings…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 1/18/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Anna Porter is the author of many books, including The Ghosts of Europe , winner of the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Kasztner's Train , winner of the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and The Storyteller , the winner of the 2001 Canadian Authors Association/Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and awarded the Order of Ontario. Anna lives in Toronto.