In this revealingly illustrated book, the political sage Kenneth Baker records the many times throughout history when books have been burnt for political, religious, or personal reasons. Ranging politically from Ancient China to the Nazis, from Animal Farm to Chairman Mao; religiously, from the Spanish destruction of the Aztec civilisation to Bloody Mary, from Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses to bibles in Islamist strongholds today; personally, from Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron ...
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Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, CH, PC is a British politician and a former Conservative MP, having served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Education a...
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 256 ● ISBN 9781911604068 ● Dimensione 17.6 MB ● Casa editrice Unicorn ● Città London ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2016 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5518942 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale