Description
Channel Four and subsequently Rear Window that mixed culture, politics and ideas.
A mixture of anecdotes, reflections, jottings and story-telling the book covers defeats and the rise of new movements: social, political, anti-imperialist. His friendship with Hugo Chavez and trips to most of South America at the height of the Bolivarian wave The characters who appear in the book reflect life in the
Eighties and beyond to the present day. There are pen-portraits of Edward Said, the intellectuals that founded and re-launched the New Left Review: Edward Thompson, Perry Anderson, Raphael Samuel as well as his time at Private Eye, the LRB and The Guardian.
Book Information
ISBN 9781804290903
Author Tariq Ali
Format Hardback
Page Count 752
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 400g