Brothers Under The Skin: Travels in Tyranny - Hardcover

Hope, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405005556 ISBN 13: 9781405005555

Verlag: Macmillan, 2003

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 279 pages; Description: 279 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924- . Hope, Christopher - Travel. Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch, 1901-1966. Dictatorship - Zimbabwe. Political persecution - Zimbabwe. Summary: The reflections on the character of modern tyranny, as examplified in the person of Robert Mugabe, and as experienced through a life-time of encounters with tyrants and their regimes. Christopher Hope met his first dictator when he was six years old: the family of Dr Henrik Verwoerd, architect of apartheid. Experience of apartheid sensitised him to the distinctive traits of tyranny he went on to witness in Germany, Russia, Serbia, South East Asia and, most recently, in Zimbabwe. For him, Robert Mugabe's regime, in its wild paranoia, its murderous conviction of righteousness, its narrow depleted vocabulary and its inability to concede power, however small, epitomises the nature of modern tyranny, wherever it is based and regardless of the race, nation or ideology it claims to embody. Through a mixture of memoir, interview, reportage and analysis, he reveals the tragic, yet entirely typical, absurdity of one man's lust for power.

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'a courageous, witty and meticulous writer' - The Times Literary Supplement

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Prize winning author, Christopher Hope, was six years old when he met his first dictator. It was Dr Henrik Verwoed, friendly neighbour and architect of the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa. Since then he has observed the cruelties and absurdities of tyranny in many places and amongst many peoples, most recently in the repeating patterns of repression instigated by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN is an impassioned reflection on the all too familiar traits of tyranny: its wild paranoia, its murderous conviction of righteousness, its narrow depleted vocabulary and its inability to concede power, however small. From Milsovik's Serbia, to the killing fields of Matabeleland, Christopher Hope reveals the vainglorious essence of tyranny as being the same, regardless of the race, nation or ideology it claims to embody. Bringing his unique experience and dazzling prose style to bare on the subject, he has produced a disturbing, wise, yet amusing text that combines memoir, interview and reportage to reveal the tragic absurdity of one man's lust for power

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• Verlag: Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1405005556
• ISBN 13: 9781405005555
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288