Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba, 1928-1978
A horribly funny book...to be kept close at hand and reread whenever we are told of a land where power is wielded in a new way, where the human soul is re-engineered and human nature uplifted.>>>> (Richard GrenierThe Washington Post)Stunning reading...a long overdue cautionary tale warning Western intellectuals against a systematic denigration of their own societies to the advantage of others, secretive and remote, about which they know next to nothing, but which they nonethelessvenerate as shining triumphs of the human spirit....Professor Hollander has not merely written an excellent book. He has rendered a service to the Republic.>>> (Richard Grenier)Stunning reading...a long overdue cautionary tale warning Western intellectuals against a systematic denigration of their own societies to the advantage of others, secretive and remote, about which they know next to nothing, but which they nonetheless venerate as shining triumphs of the human spirit....Professor Hollander has not merely written an excellent book. He has rendered a service to the Republic.(Richard Grenier)A horribly funny book...to be kept close at hand and reread whenever we are told of a land where power is wielded in a new way, where the human soul is re-engineered and human nature uplifted.(Richard GrenierThe Washington Post)--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.