Publication date: 2006-02-01
Dewey code: 277.3083092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.37
Review The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical / Zondervan Publishing House:
Publication date: 2008-05-05
Dewey code: 968
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.48
Review Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal / Blake Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-05-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.48
Review Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997 / Black Swan:"Nothing gets my hackles up more," writes John O'Farrell, "than people who should know better copping out of the political system because they think they are above it. " No-one could question O'Farrell's commitment to the political process after reading this hysterical, trenchant and admirably self-aware account of 'eighteen miserable years in the life of a labour supporter'. Born in Maidenhead to a family so irredeemably middle-class that as a student he found himself carefully punctuating his graffiti ("Jobs, comma, not bombs. Full stop. "), O'Farrell maps the unglamorous underbelly of politics-the cold community centres, the estates you can never canvas because the security doors won't let you in, the pleasure to be had in aggressively doorstepping Jehovah's Witnesses. Most impressively, O'Farrell records the psychological cost of it all. "There is," he admits, "something perverse in the fact that the task of making the world a happier place required us to stop having fun. " His account of his joyless, sexless, right-on youth will surely have bells jangling in many a balding graduate pate. Growing up in a world where the Tories had trade-marked common sense, it was inevitable that O'Farrell's primary political release should be writing for Spitting Image. Now that Labour have, at terrible ideological cost, retaken the common ground, O'Farrell has turned that humour on himself. [+]People of all political persuasions will enjoy this book. O'Farrell would hate us saying that-sadly for him, it is true. -Simon Ings.
Edition: 37th Jaico Impression 2007
Publication date: 2007-11-21
Dewey code: 943
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.64
Review Mein Kampf / Jaico Publishing House:
Authors
- Peter Snowdon
- Daniel Collings
- Anthony Seldon
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.32
Review Blair Unbound / Pocket Books:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.56
Review The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-05-29
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.99
Review Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tryant / The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-04-04
Dewey code: 324
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.35
Review Blair / Free Press:
Creator: Dominique Enright
Publication date: 2001-08-31
Dewey code: 941.084092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.02
Review The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill / Michael O'Mara Books:
Edition: 1st Scribner Hardcover Ed
Publication date: 2008-07-07
Dewey code: 973.924
RRP: £25.00
Price: £12.51
Review Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America / Scribner:
Publication date: 2005-03-03
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.83
Review Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 973.922092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.23
Review Counselor / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 2007-10-10
Dewey code: 968
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.55
Review Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future / PublicAffairs,U.S.:Martin Meredith's new book on Robert Mugabe, Mugabe: Power and Plunder in Zimbabwe comes as a welcome antidote to the current one-dimensional portrayals of the president as an "evil monster" that narrow our understanding of the man. Meredith has spent most of his career reporting on Zimbabwe and South Africa, first as a foreign correspondent and latterly as an academic, so his credentials are impeccable. He does not shirk from condemning Mugabe for his single-minded obsession with power that has left Zimbabwe's roads flowing with blood and its economy bankrupt, but Meredith reminds us that in his earlier days Mugabe was a much more considered political radical. Mugabe spent his early years under the tutelage of the Jesuits, and only abandoned religion in favour of Marxism after he won a scholarship to study at university in South Africa where he quickly became a highly politicised member of the African National Congress. He came to Western attention in the late 1970s when the apartheid regime in Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was then known, creaked to its inevitable demise and Britain set about establishing an independent African regime in its former colony. Britain did its best to rig the results in favour of its preferred candidate the moderate and easily controlled Bishop Muzorewa, but much to the surprise of the Thatcher government-but to no-one in Zimbabwe-Mugabe's ZANU party romped home as landslide victors. Britain held its breath for the backlash and. nothing happened. [+]In fact, Mugabe showed himself to be surprisingly conciliatory and Christopher Soames, the British governor-general who had been appointed to supervise the elections reported that he "ended up not only implicitly trusting him but also fondly loving him as well". So where did it all go wrong? It is tempting to suggest that his father's desertion and the death of his young son were key factors in Mugabe's subsequent emotional detachment, but Meredith resists drawing such a linear psychological equation. Instead he catalogues the landmark events, such as the scandal of the war veteran pensions, that led Mugabe to compromise both his morality and his country and one is left with the impression that Zimbabwe's fate was inevitable given that Mugabe's only guiding motivation was to hang on to power whatever the cost. Mugabe: Power and Plunder in Zimbabwe is the first book of a brand new non-fiction imprint, PublicAffairs Ltd, that is dedicated to following the standards of IF Stone and Benjamin Bradlee: both would be more than happy to be associated with Meredith's volume. -John Crace.
Publication date: 2005-05-03
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.15
Review William Pitt the Younger: A Biography / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2008-06-02
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.99
Review The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George's Life / HarperPress:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-07-01
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.49
Review My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism / Pan Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-06-26
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.95
Review Churchill: A Biography / Pan Books:Book buyers will never tire of reading about Winston Churchill, for "the greatest adventurer of modern political history" (RA Butler's verdict) led a life of action-packed drama and global significance. Roy Jenkins' Churchill is the latest biography of this great Briton, following closely in the tailwind of Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Where Best restores altitude to Churchill's dipping reputation, seeing off academic critics of the last decade or so, Jenkins provides a jumbo-size old-fashioned biography, lauding his subject's achievements, sympathising with his quirks, and stepping lightly over his well-known mistakes. As he did in his earlier biographies of Dilke, Asquith and Gladstone, Jenkins sticks closely to the published record, utilising in particular the definitive researches of Martin Gilbert, but he brings the authority and the inside knowledge of British politics to his book, slipping in his own memories of Churchill, and his own comparable experience sat the Cabinet table. It is all here, from the Boer Wars to the nuclear bomb, from the hustings in Oldham to the diplomacy of Yalta, with due coverage of the big moments-at the Board of Trade and at the Admiralty in Asquith's peacetime and wartime cabinets, taking on the appeasers in the 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s. All the books are here, and all the political relationships tetchy and touchy alike, from Lloyd George to Baldwin, Smuts to Stalin, and of course, the British people. Like its subject the book is bulky and at times indulgent, but impossible not to enjoy. -Miles Taylor.
Publication date: 2008-05-31
Dewey code: 942.055092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £17.96
Review Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2008-05-29
RRP: £18.99
Price: £7.90
Review Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches / Headline Review:
Authors
- Mahatma Gandhi
- M.K.Gandhi
- Gandhi
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-09
Dewey code: 954.035092
RRP: £8.60
Price: £3.97
Review An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth / Beacon Press:
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