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About this book
Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism.
'O'Brien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit. Agree with him or not, one reads him with enjoyment.'
Foreign Affairs
'[
Passion and Cunning] displays once again [O'Brien's] wonderful range of talents: a beautiful command of the language, gentle wit and coruscating satire, shrewd political judgment and a raking critical power. O'Brien is, moreover, a critic against all-comers, his spiky guns pointing in all directions: woe betide anyone incautious enough to presume that O'Brien is on their 'side'. . . O'Brien believes in all manner of good causes, but his own independence is finally what he cares about most.' R. W. Johnson,
London Review of Books
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Conor Cruise O’Brien: An Appreciation
- Introduction
- Passion and Cunning: An Essay on the Politics of W. B. Yeats
- Virtue and Terror: Rousseau and Robespierre
- The Liberal Pole: Pope John Paul II
- God and Man in Nicaragua
- What Can Become of South Africa?
- South Africa and the Academic Boycott
- ‘The Irish Mind’: A Bad Case of Cultural Nationalism
- Bobby Sands: Mutations of Nationalism
- Ireland: The Shirt of Nessus
- Thinking About Terrorism: I
- Thinking About Terrorism: II
- Press Freedom and the Need to Please
- A Neo-Conservative Ideologue: Norman Podhoretz
- Three Zionists: Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Katznelson
- The Fall of Africa
- States of the Union
- Index
- Copyright