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Kerry Bolton

    The Decline and Fall of Civilisations - New Edition
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom
    Perón and Perónism
    • Challenging the modern belief in linear progress, the book argues that contemporary values such as liberalism and materialism are not unique but rather historical patterns observed in past civilizations. It draws on insights from ancient cultures, including Greece, Rome, and Egypt, to illustrate that the traits celebrated as advancements today have historically signified the decline of societies. By examining these recurring themes, the author invites readers to reconsider the notion of progress and its implications for contemporary civilization.

      The Decline and Fall of Civilisations - New Edition2017
    • Perón and Perónism

      • 388 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Perón and Perónism, is unique, especially among English language books, insofar as it is not so much a biography of the remarkable Argentine president, but an explanation of Perónism in theory and practice. While the lives of Juan, and especially Eva, Perón are relatively easy to access, seldom is it that a biography of the Peróns, or even a scholarly history of Argentina, details the doctrine of Justicialism. In Perón and Perónism, Bolton draws on primary documents and speeches to define the Perónist doctrine that has moved the hearts and minds of the majority of Argentines for generations. Perón is shown to have been not only a great leader, who built the foundations of modern Argentina, but a philosopher who drew upon various philosophical schools, from Classical Greece onwards in synthesising a 'third position' that transcends capitalism and communism, Right and Left, and exposes 'demoliberalism' as a fraud. Here we also see a man of vision, an exponent of geopolitical blocs to counter globalist hegemony, whose ideals remain profoundly relevant in the age of globalisation.

      Perón and Perónism2014
      3.7
    • Seven Pillars of Wisdom

      • 704 pages
      • 25 hours of reading

      With an Introduction by Angus Calder.As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting 'hospital' in Damascus.Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce..

      Seven Pillars of Wisdom2013
      3.7