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The Empty Shield: A Decision by Donis, Giacomo
by Donis, Giacomo | PB | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781912477920
- Book Title
- Empty Shield : a Decision
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Eyewear Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, Subjects & Themes / Politics
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 482 Pages
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Literary Nonfiction. Michael Moorcock's New Statesman Book of the Year. A people's history and the horror of war: Howard Zinn meets Apocalypse Now . Political autobiography. March 1972, about to graduate from NYU. A journey: two days and nights in the New York subway. Love it or leave it. A decision: become a Great Academic Marxist; blow up the Williamsburg Bridge; go into exile. Vietnam Veterans with placards, for and against the war. Seven placard-men at the seven gates of Thebes, brandishing their shields. A decision. Political or personal? Or pure Zen? Mind or no-mind? Kill for peace! Dylan, Hendrix, or the Fugs. The two Suzukis, or Dogen. Monk and Coltrane! The relation between Hegel's logic of thinking as such and his logic of practice, which does not exist. The screech of the subway stops. A fork where three roads cross, the realm of shadows, what is to be done? A Chinese menu? Stab it! Stab it with your fork! But what I, myself, decide is not the point. The point is the question of 'what a decision is and what making a decision means.' The answer is 'never stop asking.' Ask yourself. Ask FDR, JFK, LBJ, McNamara and his band, John Kerry, or a Vietnam War veteran of your choice. Ask Nixon, Kissinger Trump! Ask Trump! Ye great decision-makers, have you ever asked yourselves what a decision is and what making a decision means! That is the question. THE EMPTY SHIELD asks it. Repeatedly, repetitiously, abysally, and, possibly, once and for all. "The book is amazing, the work of a master symphonist. His mighty voice rises from the depths--Hegel, Melville, Dostoevsky, Kafka, the Greeks, in a relentless crescendo. Readers with a sensitive ear and heart and mind, tuning in, will be swept away, as when exploring Celine or Pound or Wagner, irrespective of their politics and, indeed, the author's, at the other end of the spectrum. A tour de force. A triumph."--Anthony Rudolf
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Eyewear Publishing
ISBN-10
1912477920
ISBN-13
9781912477920
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038766687
Product Key Features
Book Title
Empty Shield : a Decision
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Subjects & Themes / Politics
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
482 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
14 Vols.
Reviews
"The Empty Shield by Giacomo Donis is an extraordinary political biography. Donis describes how his Marxist politics developed and how renouncing his US citizenship (for Italian) proved harder than leaving the Mafia, with federal agents grilling him and warning how people like him could suffer. It's a people's history rather than a conventional memoir."--MICHAEL MOORCOCK, The New Statesman, "Whew! My shield is empty, my sword sheathed. What a book! What a dazzling experience! Discovery and surprise on every page! But this is not a book one reads; rather, it's an encounter one yields to, an experience one accommodates. Right here, right now, just this."--BILL AYERS, author of Fugitive Days
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This book arrived on time and in even better- than- expected condition. My only disappointment is in the book itself: while there are a few color photographs of the artworks, many are in black and white, which just doesn't do it.