Free Download Power and the idealists, or, The passion of Joschka Fischer and its aftermath By Fischer, Joseph; Berman, Paul
2007 | 311 Pages | ISBN: 0393330214 | EPUB | 1 MB
The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968.The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, thirty-five years later, many in that radical generation had come into conventional positions of power: among them Bill Clinton (who reportedly stayed up all night reading this book) and Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany. During a 1970s street protest, Fischer was photographed beating a cop to the ground; during the 1990s, he was supporting Clinton in a NATO-led military intervention in the Balkans.Here Paul Berman, "one of America's best exponents of recent intellectual history" (The Economist), masterfully traces the intellectual and moral evolution of an impassioned generation-and gives an acute analysis of what it...