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Staying power.(Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy)(Book review)
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, by Natan Sharansky with Shira Wolosky Weiss (Public Affairs, 304 pp., $26.95)
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WHAT kept Natan Sharansky alive in the Soviet gulag, he tells us in his moving, against-the-grain new meditation on democracy, were two constants. One was his Jewishness: his notion of spiritual transcendence that he shared with other Jewish dissidents, his family, and his ancestors. Such distinctions made Sharansky a unique, rooted, and confident individual--a man with responsibilities to family and community beyond himself, a man capable of withstanding torture. But the other ...
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