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Evil Empire: The Communist 'hot, smart book of the moment'.(Review)

National Review

| September 17, 2001 | PRYCE-JONES, DAVID | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The making of a bestseller is a most uncertain art. It has to do with novelty or fashion, and the manipulation of the media. Suddenly some book is on everyone's lips, and we all hurry to the stores or the Internet for a copy. The herd instinct rarely fails. And here comes Empire. For no obvious reason, the New York Times burbles that this is the Next Big Idea, that it is "sending frissons of excitement through campuses from Sao Paolo to Tokyo," and throws open its op-ed page to the authors. Time magazine blesses it as "the hot, smart book of the moment." Whatever is going on? For this is no run-of-the-mill kind of bestseller, but a political manifesto with the aim of ...

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