De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars
The book cover features a picture of Fortuyn saluting at a 2001 Livable Netherlands meeting, along with a subtitle that promises to provide the reader with a "merciless analysis" of the public sector alongside recommendations on how to restore it to its former glory.
|
|
| Author | Pim Fortuyn |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Select Interface |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | Dutch |
| Subject | Various political issues, from healthcare reform to immigration policy. |
| Genre | Political non-fiction |
| Publisher | Karakter (Uithoorn), Speakers Academy (Rotterdam) |
|
Publication date
|
de facto: March 12, 2002 officially: March 14, 2002 |
| Pages | 186 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 783055562 |
| LC Class | JN5801 .F674 2002 |
De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars (pronounced [də ˈpœynoːpə(n) vɑn ɑxt jaːr ˈpaːrs], English: The Wreckage of Eight Purple Years) is a political non-fiction book released by the Dutch political commentator and aspiring lawmaker Pim Fortuyn in 2002, two months prior to his assassination. In the book, Fortuyn sharply criticizes the then ruling "Purple" coalition government and its direct predecessor (both composed of PvdA, VVD and D66) on nearly all areas of their policies.
The book went on to become the first and only bestselling hit for Fortuyn, whose previous writing career had not yielded any great successes.Puinhopen was reprinted more than nine times and eventually sold 270,000 copies by its tenth anniversary in 2012.
De puinhopen van acht jaar paars was branded by many Dutch media as well as Pim Fortuyn himself as the official election manifesto of the Pim Fortuyn List (of which Fortuyn was the founder and lijsttrekker), but Fortuyn later retracted these claims.
In August 2001, Pim Fortuyn declared he was going to enter national politics. Although at that time he had not yet aligned himself with the recently founded Livable Netherlands, he did express his intention to release a book later on that year which would be titled Acht jaar wachtlijsten (Eight years of ) and would reflect on the two consecutive Purple administrations. When Livable Netherlands asked him to be their lijsttrekker, Fortuyn declared that their electoral manifesto had to be in line with his upcoming book.
Acht jaar wachtlijsten was at first to be released by the formerly Marxist publisher Van Gennep, which had also published a previous work by Fortuyn. However, Van Gennep parted ways with Fortuyn in November 2001 when the latter became close to confirmation as lijsttrekker of Livable Netherlands, citing the incompatibility between their Marxist roots and the party's political positions. Karakter B.V., an imprint of Uithoorn, was announced as taking over as publisher.
...
Wikipedia