The Fall-Out
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Over the years, I had absorbed a notion of liberalism that was passive, defeatist, guilt-ridden. Feelings of guilt governed my worldview: post-colonial guilt, white guilt, middle-class guilt, British guilt. But if I was guilty, 9/11 shattered my innocence ... For while I realized almost straightaway that 9/11 would change the world, it would be several years before I accepted that it had also changed me." --The Fall-Out (2007), Andrew Anthony |
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The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence is a book by Andrew Anthony. It was published in 2007 by Vintage Books.
Anthony writes: "Over the years, I had absorbed a notion of liberalism that was passive, defeatist, guilt-ridden. Feelings of guilt governed my world view: postcolonial guilt, white guilt, middle-class guilt, British guilt. But if I was guilty, 9/11 shattered my innocence... For while I realized almost straight away that 9/11 would change the world, it would be several more years before I accepted that it had also changed me."
In this memoir, he recounts such episodes as a youthful excursion to Nicaragua to help the Sandinistas, leading reviewer Anthony Cape to call this the best first-hand description of "the way comprehensive education and the right-on educational philosophies of 1970s schoolteachers let a bright boy from a poor background down," that he had ever read.