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| William M. Brinton and Alan Rinzler, editors | WITHOUT FORCE OR LIES Voices from the Revolution of Central Europe in 1989-90 |
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A collection of essays, speeches, and eyewitness accounts from those
directly involved in the events of 1989 in Central Europe. “It was the appropriately named Mercury House on whose winged feet the
message of the epochal events of late 1989 in Eastern Europe first reached
American bookstores.…” “So broad are the views in this thoughtprovoking anthology that lots
of intellectual bang for the buck is guaranteed.… Trenchant entries include
those by first-rate brains persecuted by the system, for example, Václav
Havel, Adam Michnik, and Andrei Sakharov. Witnesses to the actual events
provide their descriptions, and speeches by Gorbachev and Poland’s finance
minister turn around the region’s Now what? mood of uncertainty over the
economic ruin it has inherited.” Essays, speeches, and eyewitness accounts from Andrei Sakharov, Václav Havel, Alfred Herrhausen, Reiner Kunze, Edith Anderson, Eric Gabriel, Günther Grass, Ewa Kuryluk, Leszek Balcerowicz, Adam Michnik, Josef Skvorecký, Tamas Aczel, George Paul Csicsery, Norman Manea, Thomas A. Oleszczuk, John Jekabson, William M. Brinton, Z (anonymous), Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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WILLIAM M. BRINTON is the founder of Mercury House, Inc. in San Francisco. An attorney with a background in international law and litigation, he is the author of The Alaska Deception and A Role for the Small Press: Publishing in a Global Village.
ALAN RINZLER has been an editor at Simon and Schuster, MacMillan, Holt, Bantam, and Grove Press, and was one of the founding members of Rolling Stone magazine. He lives in Berkeley, where he is both a psychotherapist and freelance editor. |
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