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Other Septembers, Many Americas

Selected Provocations, 1980#2004

Other Septembers, Many Americas( )
Author: Dorfman, Ariel
Foreword by: Engelhardt, Tom
ISBN:978-1-58322-632-2
Publication Date:Jul 2004
Publisher:Seven Stories Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

"Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup in which the U.S. government was complicit. "Beware the plague of victimhood, America . . . Nothing is more dangerous than a giant who is afraid." Included in Other Septembers, Many Americas are...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: History / United States / 21St Century
Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.6 x 8.3 x 0.65 Inches
Book Weight:0.75 Pounds
Author Biography
Dorfman, Ariel (Author)
Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean citizen. A supporter of Salvador Allende, he was forced into exile and has lived in the United States for many years. Since writing his legendary essay, "How to Read Donald Duck", Dorfman has built up an impressive body of work that has translated into more than thirty languages. Besides poetry, essays and novels--"Hard Rain" (Readers International, 1990), winner of the Sudamericana Award; "Widows" (Pluto Press, 1983); "The Last Song of Manuel Sendero" (Viking, 1987); "Mascara" (Viking, 1988); "Konfidenz" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995)--he has written plays, including "Death and the Maiden", and produced in ninety countries. He has won various international awards, including two Kennedy Center Theatre Awards. With his son, Rodrigo, he received an award for best television drama in Britain for "Prisoners of Time" in 1996. A professor at Duke University, Dorfman lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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