Memoir: My Life and Themes
- ISBN-10
- 0815410646
- ISBN-13
- 9780815410645
- Series
- Memoir
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
- Pages
- 460
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Press
- Author
- Conor Cruise O'Brien
Description
Known as a diplomat, government minister, historian, biographer, anti-war activist, playwright, editor, political theorist and university president, Conor Cruise O'Brien has brought his unique perspective to such thorny issues as Irish nationalism, Zionism, post-colonial Africa and India and terrorism. In this searching memoir O' Brien traces the forces that have shaped the past eighty years of his own life with clarity, power, passion and tender wit.
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