John Ralston Saul, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $26 (370p) ISBN 978-1-56858-293-1
This intriguing but often murky treatise on political philosophy extols balance and moderation in an incongruously vehement tone. Saul, an economist and philosopher and author of Voltaire's Bastards, sees humanism as a""dynamic equilibrium"" between
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John Ralston Saul, Author Overlook Press $29.95 (309p) ISBN 978-1-58567-629-3
""The monolithic ideology of economic truisms is fading away,"" writes Saul in this ominously titled elegy to globalism, an equally revered and reviled economic philosophy in which world markets would supplant nation-states. At least that was the...
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John Ralston Saul, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $0 (270p) ISBN 978-0-07-054865-7
This provocative story from the well-traveled author of Baraka and The Next Best Thing is as much a novel of seedy Asian atmosphere as it is a satisfying thriller. John Field is a former Canadian journalist who has lived in Thailand for 20 years....
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John Ralston Saul, Author Free Press $24.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-02-927725-6
Known for his novels of international intrigue, Saul in his first work of nonfiction delivers a passionate jeremiad on the follies of our age. Reason, he argues, has run amok; instead of the enlightened utopia envisaged by Voltaire, the modern West...
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John Ralston Saul, Author Free Press $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-83257-9
Writing in the same iconoclastic spirit he brought to Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, Canadian writer Saul offers a damning indictment of what he terms corporatism, today's dominant ideology. While the corporatist state...
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