In his searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars. The slaughter Rieff witnessed in Bosnia forever poisoned the idea of remembrance for him. This book, he writes, is a product of that alarm.

ISBN: 9780522858600
Title: Against Remembrance
Author: RIEFF DAVID
Format: Paperback
RRP: $19.99
Price: $14.95