Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco (Author)

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Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco (Author)ISBN: 9781846550355 Publisher : Harvill Secker, September 27, 2007 Hardcover, 384 pages Turning Back the Clock is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco explains the tragic steps backwards that have been taken since the end of the last millennium. After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have

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