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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (New York Review Books Classics)
To the Finland Station A Study in the Writing and Acting of History - New York Review Books Classics Author:Edmund Wilson, Louis Menand (Introduction) To the Finald Station is one of the greatest works by 20th-century Americas heralded man of letters. This magisterial study of the revolutionary dream reaches from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to Russia in 1917, and features brilliant portraits of such figures as Jules Michelet, the great historian of the French people; ... more »the utopians Robert Owen and Charles Fourier; the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin; and of course Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky. Combining his polymathic talents as critic, journalist, historian, and novelist, Edmund Wilson offers an incisive and enduring tribute to the resilience, depth, and passion of the modern culture of protest.« less