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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 320.531094109051 EAN: 9780007229703 Edition: Updated ISBN: 0007229704 Label: HarperCollins UK Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 01, 2007 Publisher: HarperCollins UK Studio: HarperCollins UK Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Acclaimed political commentator Nick Cohen investigates the confusing current status of his own political affiliates, the Left, in this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred survey. He searches for the seemingly impossible answers to such questions as: Why are apologies for a militant Islam—which stands for everything the liberal-Left is against—coming from the Left? After the American and British wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansers, why were men and women of the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left, but not China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe, or North Korea? And exactly who or what are the Left fighting for? With biting satire and sharp insight, this sprawling survey reclaims the values of democracy and solidarity, identifies the core tenets of modern liberal thought, and established a new, proactive definition of the Left. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Truth Can Be RedeemingNicholas Cohen has done one of the most difficult things a writer or journalist can do, truthfully examine the motives and actions of a group with which he intently identifies. Mr. Cohen was born and raised in the socialist (left) tradition. And he has found the "left" (Red Ken, Oliver Stone, Vanessa Redgrave and a host of others) corrupting and debasing their own beliefs. Mr. Cohen writes very succinctly, avoids over dramatization and his book is chock full of specific examples. ... Read More Rating:  - Complete the story please NickWhat's Left is an important book that asks a number of hard, important questions of the actions of the liberal left in response particularly to the invasion of Iraq. Thus it makes compelling reading for anyone of that political persuasion, in fact, for anyone of any political persuasion. But the book focuses mainly on the left's involvement to the protests leading up to the Iraq war - and well it might. I remember that crisp day in London on February 15 2003, those supercilious banners ... Read More Rating: - What's Left?...Not MuchBefore 9/11 leftist British journalist Nick Cohen's most pressing concern was attacking the Labor government of Tony Blair. Indeed since the Blair government was elected, Cohen had been denouncing it for being corrupt and altogether too cozy with big business. In Cohen's own words, "attacking Tony Blair was what got me out of bed in the morning." Like the traditional left, Cohen was perputually in opposition to the status quo. However, after 9/11, Cohen's views changed dramatically, ... Read More Rating: - A superb bookIn this excellent work, Nick Cohen examines some of the problems with today's political left. He reminds us that in the past century, the Left has indeed been quite successful at transforming society. If one were to look at the goals of the Left from, say, 1907, we'd realize that most of them have been accomplished. Do those on the Left still have similar goals? No. As the author points out, in the past, leftist passion tended to show praiseworthy concern for the underdog. However, ... Read More Rating: - The Left Hand of DarknessNick Cohen's well written book is not quite an Encyclopedia of all things Left, but it's close. Where else can you read about Ernst Bevin and Jacques Derrida, Celebrity Big Brother and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the bloody history of the Baath party? It's hard to argue with Cohen's main thesis: There are many in the Left for whom the loathing of everything western, particularly everything American, erases any sense of moral perspective. Thus the ... Read More 
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