Tariq Ali

Gebundenes Buch

Winston Churchill

His Times, His Crimes

Beschreibung

The life and crimes of the last, great Imperialist

Autor

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Durnell Marston / Verso UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6957
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781788735773
• ISBN-10: 1788735773
• Artikelnr.: 60892852

Rezensionen

Included in The Independent's Books of the month for May 2022 Independent

In Ali's telling, which draws on more honest existing historical scholarship than most popular biographies of Churchill, the two-times prime minister emerges not so much as deeply racist - some of his contemporaries remarked on it in shock - as profoundly authoritarian, with a soft spot for fascist strongmen, and a hostility to working-class assertion. Priyamvada Gopal Prospect