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David Pryce-Jones

Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby

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Treason of the Heart is an account of British people who took up foreign causes. Not mercenaries, then, but ideologues. Almost all were what today we would call radicals or activists, who thought they knew better than whichever bunch of backward or oppressed people it was that they had come to save. Usually they were applying to others what they saw as the benefits of their culture, and so obviously meritorious was their culture that they were prepared to be violent in imposing it. Some genuinely hated their own country, however, and saw themselves promoting abroad the values their own retrograde government was blocking.The book deals with th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59403-528-9
  • EAN: 9781594035289
  • Produktnummer: 8566132
  • Verlag: Encounter Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 258 S.
  • Masse: H23.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.5 cm 544 g
  • Gewicht: 544

Über den Autor


David Pryce-Jones is the author of ten novels and thirteen books of non-fiction, including the best—selling The Closed Circle and The Strange Death of the Soviet Union. He is a Senior Editor of National Review.

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