Only Man is Vile by William Mcgowan

Only Man is Vile by William Mcgowan

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Beneath the superficial charm of Sri Lanka brews a complex struggle over ethnicity which threatens to turn this beautiful land into another Lebanon. This is an account of a society consumed by the hatreds of race and class, the brutalities of political violence and the quest for identity.

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Only Man is Vile by William Mcgowan

Beneath the superficial charm of Sri Lanka brews a complex struggle over ethnicity which threatens to turn this beautiful land into another Lebanon. This is an account of a society consumed by the hatreds of race and class, the brutalities of political violence and the quest for identity.
William McGowan is the author of Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Coloring The News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism (Encounter Books) for which he won a National Press Club Award in 2002. A former editor at the Washington Monthly, he has reported for Newsweek International and the BBC and has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review and many other national publications. A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, he has been a frequent commentator on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, Court TV as well as other cable and broadcast networks. A former Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, he is currently a Media Fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center. He lives in New York City.
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ISBN 13 9780330326797
ISBN 10 0330326791
Title Only Man is Vile
Author William Mcgowan
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 1993-01-08
Number of pages 416
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.