UNENDING BOMBING OF EASTASIA: 3/4: The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Socialist-Patriot-George-Orwell-War/dp/150363549X
Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the q
uintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at once responded to and sought to influence the tumultuous times in which he lived—decades during which Europe and eventually the entire world would be torn apart by war, while ideologies like fascism, socialism, and communism changed the stakes of global politics
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| 1:11.0 | so of Stanford University discussing his new book The Socialist Patriot |
| 1:15.8 | George Orwell in war. George Orwell is world famous solar system famous for |
| 1:20.6 | two books 1984 and Animal Farm. Before that, however, there was the evolution |
| 1:25.8 | of a novelist and journalist and an essayist and a book reviewer and an editor. The literary life as it was lived between the first war and the Cold War. |
| 1:39.1 | And right now we're in that period early on when George Orwell has come back from Spain, not disillusioned but lucky |
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