Book description
For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among
truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp
precision, what he has found. Facts are Subversive, which collects his
writings since the millennium, addresses some of the crucial questions
of our time: what happens to people who have endured long
dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can
freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before
the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of
different faiths and ethnicities? This is history of the present on a
scale by turns panoramic and human: urgent, exhilarating and necessary.
'Gripping and illuminating' John Gray, New Statesman 'Marvellously
evocative' Literary Review 'Immensely refreshing... Garton Ash writes
with such unfailing skill and perception.' David Blair, Daily Telegraph
'One of the most enjoyable political books you'll read this year...
Scholarly, insightful and frequently laugh-out-loud funny' GQ
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political
writing - 'history of the present' - which have charted the
transformation of Europe over the last three decades. He is Professor
of European Studies at the University of Oxford, where he is Isaiah
Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, and a Senior Fellow
at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear
regularly in the New York Review of Books and his weekly column for
the Guardian is widely syndicated across Europe, Asia and the
Americas. He has received many awards for his writing, including the
Somerset Maugham Award and the Orwell Prize.
