The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968-1973

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Preface
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Rebellion in a Vacuum
26
Life in 1980 The Rule of Mediocracy
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Arthur Koestler
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About the author (1974)

Arthur Koestler was born on September 5, 1905 in Budapest, Hungary and studied at the University of Vienna. Koestler was a Middle East correspondent for several German newspapers, wrote for the Manchester Guardian, the London Times and the New York Herald Tribune. Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, which centers on the destructiveness of politics, The Act of Creation, a book about creativity, and The Ghost in the Machine, which bravely attacks behaviorism. Arthur Koestler died in London on March 3, 1983.

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TitleThe Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968-1973
AuthorArthur Koestler
PublisherHutchinson, 1974
ISBN0091194008, 9780091194000
Length254 pages
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