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Paul Lendvai

The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat

Buch

This brief narrative of Hungarian history, elegantly translated into English, is written with verve, humor, profound insights, and just the right degree of cynicism. It well explains the dilemma of a respectable old state squeezed between more powerful neighbors, the contradictions between individual genius and repeated national failure, and the recurring tragic conflicts between the defense of nationhood and messianic nationalism. It is supplemented with fascinating essays on, for instance, the complexities of Jewish and German assimilation into the Hungarian nation.--Istvan Deak, Columbia UniversityWhen Paul Lendvai, the indefatigable obser… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Major, Ann (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-11969-4
  • EAN: 9780691119694
  • Produktnummer: 9139073
  • Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 572 S.
  • Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.0 cm x D3.7 cm 835 g
  • Gewicht: 835

Über den Autor


Paul Lendvai is a leading European journalist and a senior television commentator with ORF, the Austrian public broadcasting corporation. Since 1973 he has been editor in chief and copublisher of the Vienna-based international quarterly Europäische Rundschau. The recipient of numerous prizes for his writings and journalism, he is the author of ten books, including Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe (St. Martin's), Eagles in Cobwebs: Nationalism and Communism in the Balkans, and Anti-Semitism without the Jews: Communist Eastern Europe (both Doubleday).

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