Long Shadows : Truth, Lies and History by Paris, Erna - 2001

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9h x 6 1/2w. A real nice clean 495 page first edition hardcover with "1" present in number line. Has just a touch of wear to dust jacket bottom but still very nice. Combining storytelling with observation, Paris takes the reader on a remarkable journey through four continents to explore how nations reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events. She seeks out politicians and power brokers, as well as men and women living in the aftermath of repression, asking the question: Who gets to decide what actually happened yesterday, then to propagate the tale? How do people live with the consequences? Any why is it that many countries cannot lay the past to rest? Her journey takes her to the United States, with its memories of slavery; to South Africa, to sit in on a Truth and Reconciliation hearing to heal the divisions of apartheid; to Japan, to probe the unresolved struggled for truth in Second World history..