The Rage and the PrideWith this book Fallaci breaks a ten year silence--the silence she kept until September 11's apocalypse in her Manhattan house. She breaks it with a deafening noise. In Europe this book has caused a turmoil--polemics, discussion, debates, hearty praises, wild attacks. Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the Western world; the global reality of the Jihad and the lack of response, the lenience of the West. She defends our culture and blames what she calls our blindness, our deafness, our masochism, the conformism and the arrogance of the Politically Correct.--From publisher description. |
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... political self - exile that both my father and I im- posed on ourselves when we realized that living in a country ... politics to which he had dedicated his life as a noble and upright man did not reach him . I , roving around the world ...
... political self - exile that both my father and I im- posed on ourselves when we realized that living in a country ... politics to which he had dedicated his life as a noble and upright man did not reach him . I , roving around the world ...
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... political refugees , political exiles . In 1850 , after the fall of the Roman Republic and the death of Anita and the flight from Italy , even Giuseppe Garibaldi came here : remember ? He arrived the 30th of July on a ship from ...
... political refugees , political exiles . In 1850 , after the fall of the Roman Republic and the death of Anita and the flight from Italy , even Giuseppe Garibaldi came here : remember ? He arrived the 30th of July on a ship from ...
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... politics , ( a holy word for me , as you may have realized ) you appeared . You sprouted in its Olympus the same way an un- specified plant sprouts in a field , so we confusedly look at it and wonder : << What's that ? A radish , a ...
... politics , ( a holy word for me , as you may have realized ) you appeared . You sprouted in its Olympus the same way an un- specified plant sprouts in a field , so we confusedly look at it and wonder : << What's that ? A radish , a ...
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