Author : Createspace Independent Pub
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512315738
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (157 download)
Book Synopsis The New Statesman Century by : Createspace Independent Pub
Download or read book The New Statesman Century written by Createspace Independent Pub and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Statesman Century is an anthology of the finest cultural and political writing, published in the New Statesman over the last hundred years. It contains hundreds of articles not to be found anywhere else, including Christopher Hitchens' final interview, conducted by Richard Dawkins; H G Wells's notorious interview with Joseph Stalin from 1934; Philip Larkin on the "addictive excitement" of a public library; an early excerpt from Christopher Isherwood's diaries as he travelled around China with W H Auden; Christabel Pankhurst on the suffragette movement; George Orwell on London's poor; Bertrand Russell's open letter to General Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War (plus their astonishing replies); J B Priestley's "Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", the furious article that launched CND; C P Snow's famous "Two Cultures" essay; as well as contributions by Virginia Woolf, Hugh Grant, Eric Hobsbawm, Julian Barnes, Gore Vidal, Graham Greene, Rebecca West, E M Forster, D H Lawrence, Seamus Heaney, T S Eliot and John Maynard Keynes - plus landmark interviews and profiles of Tony Blair, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Mahatma Gandhi, and Winston Churchill.