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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism  - 1st US Edition/1st  Printing

Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

by Eco, Umberto

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0151013519
ISBN 13
9780151013517
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Orlando: Harcourt, Inc.. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0151013519 . A very beautiful and desirable first edition, first printing in As New condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Umberto Eco directly on the title page. Surprisingly scarce; Eco's collection of provocative essays, originally published in two leading Italian newspapers. Eco examines subjects such as Mideastern and European politics, myth, prejudice, globalization, The Da Vinci Code, magical thinking, rhetoric, religion, intelligent design and .....Harry Potter. Translated from the Italian by Alistair McEwen; 8vo; [xii], 369, [3] pages; Signed by Author .

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The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco’s response is a provocative, passionate, and witty series of essays—which originally appeared in the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and L’Espresso—that leaves no slogan unexamined, no innovation unexposed. What led us into this age of hot wars and media populism, and how was it sold to us as progress? Eco discusses such topics as racism, mythology, the European Union, rhetoric, the Middle East, technology, September 11, medieval Latin, television ads, globalization, Harry Potter, anti-Semitism, logic, the Tower of Babel, intelligent design, Italian street demonstrations, fundamentalism, The Da Vinci Code, and magic and magical thinking. The famous author and respected scholar shows his practical, engaged side: an intellectual involved in events both local and global, a man concerned about taste, politics, education, ethics, and where our troubled world is headed.

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Title
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
Author
Eco, Umberto
Format/Binding
Cloth
Book Condition
New As New in As New dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0151013519
ISBN 13
9780151013517
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc.
Place of Publication
Orlando
Date Published
2006
Keywords
Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Essays
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