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portada fools, knaves, and heroes: great political short stories
Type
Physical Book
Illustrated by
Introduction by
Publisher
Author
Year
1991
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.2 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.35 kg.
ISBN
0393332349
ISBN13
9780393332346
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fools, knaves, and heroes: great political short stories

Simon Bainbridge (Illustrated by, Introduction by) · Jeffrey Archer (Illustrated by) · W. W. Norton & Company · Paperback

fools, knaves, and heroes: great political short stories - Archer, Jeffrey ; Bainbridge, Simon ; Bainbridge, Simon

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Synopsis "fools, knaves, and heroes: great political short stories"

The category of "political short story" is a deliberately loose one, for not many writers have hands-on experience of the world of politics. The authors here might have described their stories as being about people, rather than politics. And so the collection is wonderfully diverse, ranging from Joyce's evocation of tarnished ideals and a fallen hero in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" to Jack London's vivid fantasy of a general strike across the United States in "The Dream of Debs," to Mark Twain's dark satire of the venality of political life in "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg." If there are few genuine heroes in the stories Mr. Archer has selected, perhaps that is an accurate reflection of the real world. In any case, this generally dark view of politics has a silver lining: for as readers of Milton's Paradise Lost discovered long ago, the doings of a charismatic villain make for more interesting reading than the deeds of a virtuous man.

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