{"product_id":"time-of-illusion-isbn-9780394722177","title":"Time of Illusion","description":"\"A thoughtful and deservedly acclaimed meditation on the decade which, in 1974, 'finally brought the American Constitutional system to the edge of breakdown'.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeign Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The remarkable achievements of this book are its fairness, its attention to details, and its capacity to put the bewildering complexities of these years into some kind of meaningful historical perspective. Schell, at thirty-two, has avoided the usual partisan and political pitfalls. He has an eye for the illuminating incident, the patience of a scholar, and the gift of clear and muscular prose. If there is a better or more thoughtful and compassionate book on this whole bewildering tragedy, I don't know what it is.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Reston, Martha's Vineyard Gazette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By persuasively connecting the Nixon years to the larger dilemmas of our time, Mr. Schell has elevated a shabby political story to the level of tragedy. And one closes his deeply intelligent book not with feelings of vindication or outrage, but with a sense of understanding and equanimity that only tragedy can evoke.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times\u003cb\u003eJonathan Schell\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1943 in New York City. He graduated from the Putney School in Vermont and \u003ci\u003emagna cum laude\u003c\/i\u003e from Harvard University, where he majored in Far Eastern history and wrote for the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Crimson. \u003c\/i\u003eHe learned Japanese and travelled widely while enrolled in the Graduate School of International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eSchell was the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute. He died in 2014.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300771549413,"sku":"NP9780394722177","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394722177.jpg?v=1767742649","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/time-of-illusion-isbn-9780394722177","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}