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Pfaff, William, 1928-2015.

Title The bullet's song : romantic violence and utopia / William Pfaff.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Special Collections Whitehead	303.6094 P47b 2004	---	Lib Use Only

Description	368 p. ; 25 cm.
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	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-350) and index.
Contents	Romanticism and violence -- Overture -- I: Chivalry -- The fallen hero -- The warrior -- The happy man -- II: Utopias -- The Mediterranean superman -- The confidence man -- L'Homme engagé -- The anti-communist -- Coda: the romantic revolutionary -- Progress.
Summary	Pfaff discusses writers, artists, intellectual soldiers, and religious revolutionaries (including : T.E. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'Annunzio -- Ernst Jünger -- Willi Münzenberg -- André Malraux -- Arthur Koestler -- Vladimir Peniakoff -- Benito Mussolini -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- Che Guevara -- Charles de Foucauld -- Simone Weil -- Jean-Paul Sartre) who are implicated in the twentieth century's physical and moral violence.
Subject	Social history -- 20th century.
	Intellectuals -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century.
	Radicalism -- History -- 20th century.
	Intellectuals -- Political activity. (OCoLC)fst00975813
	Radicalism. (OCoLC)fst01087015
	Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0684809079
	9780684809076