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Red Ribbon From Kate L

Something About Me and My Book:: From the Back Cover:

In his classic, 1984, George Orwell selected certain features of his society as a basic skeleton, then fleshed political fiction over the bones. Many parallels between 1984 and the modern world have long been recognized. In Orwell's Warning: The Greatest Amerikan Paradox, Erik Blaire compares these features to the paradoxes of American politics, violence, and religion. Acknowledging they are inseparable, he proposes that American freedom must therefore also be paradoxical. With clues derived by examining American schizophrenia, obedience, disobedience, and paranoia, Blaire adopts as a factual “skeleton” the historical puzzle of Francisco Pizarro’s conquering the mightiest empire of South America in one evening with a single boatload of 150 men. Solving the puzzle, he then “fleshes” in fiction a working model for the most important, yet most neglected of Orwell's features, the “central secret” of Oceania. Blaire's conclusion: any culture which is built on, and thus conceals a central secret, must be characterized by a paradoxical or Orwellian state of freedom, just like The Greatest Amerikan Paradox.

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At 2:00pm on March 24, 2010, Kate L gave Erik Blaire a gift…: Red Ribbon
I just wanted to introduce myself and my blog, The Book Buff: Book Reviews for Regular People. Check it out at http://www.thebookbuff.blogspot.com
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