![]() ![]() ![]() Lost in transition: while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced : Slamming the door on history: a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China - Democracy born in chains: South Africa's constricted freedom - Bonfire of a young democracy: Russia chooses "the Pinochet option" - The capitalist id: Russia and the new era of the boor - Let it burn: the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin wall" - Part 5. Surviving democracy: bombs made of laws : Saved by a war: Thatcherism and its useful enemies - The new doctor shock: economic warfare replaces dictatorship - Crisis works: the packaging of shock therapy - Part 4. ![]() The first test: birth pangs : States of shock: the blood birth of the counterrevolution - Cleaning the slate: terror does its work - "Entirely unrelated": how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes - Part 3. Two doctor shocks: research and development : The torture lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind - The other doctor shock: Milton Friedman and the search for a Laissez-Faire laboratory - Part 2. ![]() Introduction : Blank is beautiful: three decades of erasing and remaking the world - Part 1. Includes bibliographical references and index Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007 ![]()
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Few people have left so indelible a mark on the United States of America as did Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() It's a fascinating story and one that a reader can delight in picking apart in layer after layer. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray Home Literature Notes Vanity Fair Plot of Vanity Fair Table of Contents. It's interesting to turn this criticism on it's head and see that Becky is a product of the situation in which she finds herself - if she'd have been born into the same situation as Amelia she'd have no need to be as ambitious as she is. It has long been critiqued that Becky is essentially amoral, doing everything she can to get herself to a higher status. ![]() Amelia has been born into priviledge, whereas Becky has to fight her way up in society. 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