Book, Age of Extremes[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Panoramic historical essay in which the famous English historian develops the thesis that the 20th century began with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.. Eric Hobsbawm, one of the greatest historians of our time, gives his testimony about the 20th century: "My lifetime coincides with most of the period covered by this book," he says in the opening, "so I have so far refrained from speaking about it.". In this fascinating book, however, he abandons his voluntary silence to tell, in simple and engaging language, the story of the "age of lost illusions.". "A classic scholar who writes in equal enjoyable fashion about the Mafia, jazz, African rebels, politics or economics." - William Waack, See "Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes is his masterpiece. More original, more personal and, inevitably, more political." - Perry Anderson, The Guardian "Hobsbawm sees the century as marked by two great eras, that of catastrophe (from 1914 to 1948) and the gold one (from 1949 to 1973). More human beings were killed in it than at any other time and levels of well-being and transformations were achieved that were never seen before in human experience.. Hobsbawm tells this with elegant erudition. It has the magic of Fred Astaire." - Elio Gaspari, O Estado de S. Paul