Don’t know much about politics…
I can’t recall exactly why I bought Paul Berman’s A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968, but I think it had something to do with the title of one chapter, which is “Zappa and Havel.” I hoped it would help me understand more about the roots of the revolution(s) of 1989, and perhaps it did. But its scope extended further than I expected.
Berman clearly writes from a perspective very different from my own, but with refreshing clarity and wit. In fact, one unexpected fruit of reading the book was a chance to listen to someone assessing radical leftist ideologies and strategies from a sympathetic and yet critical viewpoint.