COURTESY OF LowCountryBookstore: This book does not claim to be anything but what is it. It does not want to promise anything more than it claims, that is, a direct testimony by fourteen political figures of contemporary history, each with his or her symbolic meaning and alignment in a symbolic sequence. (Because of this, I did not want to bring any interview up to date, not seen the older ones, nor to re-elaborate them, thereby spoiling their value as documents that crystallized the moments they were recorded. I wanted to leave them intact in their genuineness, without worrying over the fact that Golda Meir is no longer prime minister, Willy Brandt no longer chancellor, Thieu no longer dictator of South Vietnam, and Alexandros Panagoulis no longer a persecuted here of the Resistance to the Greek colonels. But while reading it, you should keep in mind that No that reappears, stubborn, desperate, indelible, among the trees on a hill in the Peloponnesus. (From Preface of book - By Oriana Fallaci.)