Edge of Eternity: Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, 3)

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Edge of Eternity: Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, 3)

Edge of Eternity: Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, 3)

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Some of these cookies are essential to make our site work and others help to give us insight into how the site is being used. I can summarize it for you this way: Liberals are brilliant, dashing, successful, all-knowing, always wise and prescient. On November 9, 1989, in the wake of anti-Soviet revolutions in Poland and Hungary, East Germany opens up the Berlin Wall, paving the way for German reunification and the effective dissolution of East Germany's Communist government. For the idea of mixing fictional with real characters to work, the real characters have to be people you would never have heard of (which is why the first two books work) but it's quite hard to suspend disbelief when there are characters who had they been real you would have definitely heard of, mixing with characters who were actually real. It teaches readers about the Cold War era through its gripping storytelling and vivid character development.

And I’m disappointed because after the first two books in the series, I was really looking forward to the wrap-up.However, the Welsh author used his characters to promote his obvious political preference for socialism and liberalism. Not only will you get an up-close and intimate feeling for how the major players of the day acted – JFK and his brother, Bobby; Lyndon Johnson; Nikita Khrushchev; Martin Luther King; Richard Nixon; J Edgar Hoover; Fidel Castro; Mikhail Gorbachev; Ho Chi Minh, to name only a few – but you will also meet an epic cast of smaller players created to serve as metaphors for broad groups of people living in those perilous times – blacks; East Berliners; West Germans; privileged American whites; racists and protesting musicians; oppressed Soviets; draftees to the Vietnam War and so on. George is mixed-race; his father is the white US Senator Greg Peshkov and his mother is the African-American actor Jacky Jakes with whom Greg had an affair.

The book ends with an epilogue set on November 4, 2008, the night of Barack Obama's election to President of the United States. Rebecca thought he was trying to seem important, and she wondered whether this was his first interrogation. The story follows characters from Germany, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, who become linked by events from just before the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961 to that wall’s demise in 1989 (and in an epilogue to the night of Barack Obama’s election in 2008). Now, for Reagan, he asserts that he's even worse than Tricky Dick, and that he got away with murdering innocents during the Iran-Contra affair.

Her grandfather had been a Social Democrat member of the Reichstag, the national parliament, until Hitler came to power. In summary, it is nothing less than a fictionalized version of the 20th Century after World War II and the events leading up to and through the world’s hair’s breadth avoidance of all out nuclear war as the Cold War between the USA and the USSR unfolded.

Many critics focused on the tension between the novel's length and deep dive into history and the novel's compelling treatment of that history. So she channeled her idealism into teaching, and hoped that the next generation would be less dogmatic, more compassionate, smarter. Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. He never complained, but they made love only about once a week, which she believed to be infrequent for newlyweds. And the degree to which some individual events foreshadow their virtually identical repetition in the 21st century with the rise of the Tea Party and the Trump presidency is at once frightening and shameful - the effective collapse of the fight for black civil rights during the latter portion of Johnson’s presidency; Saudi financing for CIA assassination hit squads; and (plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose) the gullibility and the capacity for self-deception that is American Society.Rebecca Hoffman, a teacher in East Berlin, the adopted daughter of Carla von Ulrich and her husband Werner Franck. The principal point-of-view character in the United States setting is George Jakes, a young lawyer and Harvard graduate who works for Attorney General Robert Kennedy during John Kennedy's presidential administration. Rebecca mopped up her spilled drink, apologized to her colleagues, pretended nothing was wrong, and went to the ladies’ room, where she locked herself in a cubicle. Ken Follett is one of the world's best-loved authors, selling more than 188 million copies of his thirty-six books. Finally, the revisionist history of memorable events is riddled with so much banal liberal bias that it ruins the storyline involving people/events in the U.

Steve Novak of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described the novel as "an extremely extensive refresher course [in history].Perhaps it is because I lived through this era, that there was a knowing of the linear plot, but I just don't think it was well written. The spin made me question the accuracy of the historical elements in previous two books of the Century Trilogy. Both superpowers pull strings behind many regimes across the world and attempt to prop up governments that support their cause. This was the second time Rebecca had been asked to teach an English class, and she began to think about a text. But at that point he could hardly go back to pretending that she was a propagandist for capitalist imperialism.



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