{"product_id":"9781990695841","title":"The Message","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Message is a birds eye view of the origin of Marxism, how it came to be a political system, what kind of a society it is, its daily life, all woven around my personal experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e \"The remarkable power of his \"message\" derives not from rhetorical device but from the searing authenticity of his early life experience.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e \"Without exception, the most potent critiques Soviet Communism have been written by those who have had first-hand experience of it.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e \"His [Dr, Michael Hansen] engrossing book \"The Message\" is both a history of his daily life under Communism and a philosophical and moral meditation upon Romanian Communism as a spiritual pathology.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eProfessor John Fleming, Professor Emeritus of literature at Princeton University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Past President of the Medieval Academy of America.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)\"\u003e\"The way the author was able to capture the stark reality of life under a Communist government, and the ways in which Communism strikes down the idea of individuality in those nations, was both heartbreaking and eye-opening to read about.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)\"\u003e-Pacific Book Review by Jack Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookside Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48530947997937,"sku":"9781990695841","price":12.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781990695841_p0.jpg?v=1786314346","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781990695841","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}