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To learn more about Copies Direct watch this short online video. Already have an account? Log in. Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials. Sign Up. No Comments Yet. More by Robert G. Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance. Pub Date: Jan. Review Posted Online: Oct. Show all comments. More by Elie Wiesel. Page Count: Publisher: St.
The author is a journalist who lived in Russia during critical periods of Gorbachev's life and gleaned information from contacts there and news sources in America and Russia as well as just about everything Gorbachev said that was published. Reported on most speeches he gave, very thorough on substance of information. Detailed information from his birth to January stopped to publish book. Gorbachev was ar This was actually a tedious book, boring to those who don't eat up history like I do.
Gorbachev was arrested in August and his leadership ended. It did what a good biography should do: examine the character, thinking process, personality and personal appeal and temperament of the person. Did answer the question of how and why he came to power and what his failures were.
Poor scholarship. I'm using it for research on the Nina Andreeva Affair, a quite delicate and disputed topic in academia, and he qualifies everything he says about it afterwards with, "My sources were not the key participants Their information was incomplete, and could have been wrong in some details" If this is the case, don't include this content in your book and contribute to misinformation.
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