Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize A New Yorker Best Book of the Year For the 75th anniversary of 1984, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today. George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own—rising inequality, ce