Power and the Idealists Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath [Paperback]

The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, thirty-five years later, many in that radical generation had come into conventional positions of power: among them Bill Clinton (who reportedly stayed up all night reading this book) and Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany. During a 1970s street protest, Fischer was photographed beating a cop to the ground; during the 1990s, he was supporting Clinton in a NATO-led military intervention in the Balkans.Remarkable...superb...lucid.Illuminating.The best extended political essay I have ever read....More than a contribution to the modern history of ideas, it is a work of art.The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968.