The Magic Lantern

The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

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by Timothy Garton Ash

Random House, Inc

Due/Published August 1993, 167 pages, paper

ISBN 0679740481

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory--or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with sympathy and power.