The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland’s first free parliamentary elections–in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory–or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power.

This book is a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose aftereffects are still being felt today. As Garton Ash writes in an incisive new afterword, from the perspective of three decades later: “Freedom’s battle is never finally won. It must be fought anew in every generation.”

Author: Timothy Garton Ash
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/31/1993
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780679740483
Language: English