Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.75
Review Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother / John Murray:
Publication date: 2008-08-15
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.38
Review King Rufus: The Life and Mysterious Death of William II of England / The History Press:
Publication date: 2000-02-01
Dewey code: 974.71040922
RRP: £12.72
Price: £14.81
Review Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age / The Free Press:
Creator: George Beccaloni
Publication date: 2008-11
Dewey code: 576
RRP: £30.00
Price: £23.75
Review Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace / OUP Oxford:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-07-22
Dewey code: 791.430233092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.20
Review Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man / HarperCollins:Someone was bound to go after Michael Moore eventually and Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man holds nothing back. An immensely popular figure to political left-wingers, Michael Moore presents himself as a regular working-class guy in a baseball cap with the courage to take some rich and powerful folks to task for their corrupt and deceitful ways. David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke say this populist, muckraker image is pure whitewash. Believing that this charade has gone on for too long, and done too much damage to the U. S. , they have written this book to expose Moore as narcissistic and irresponsible and his body of work "as manipulative as totalitarian propaganda. " To prove their point, they pick apart Moore's books and movies to illustrate how he is consistently manipulative, dishonest, and, at times, simply absurd. They show how he altered the timeline of his film Roger and Me in order to unfairly blame things on General Motors that happened before their layoffs, not as a result of them. Regarding Bowling for Columbine, the authors explain how he took quotes out of context and reassembled them to give the impression that people made speeches they did not make-most famously his interview with Charlton Heston, then president of the NRA. [+]They also illustrate how Moore manipulated statistics in his books Dude, Where's My Country and Stupid White Men to fit his theories, making some truly outrageous claims in the process. The authors have certainly done their homework, and it's impossible to view Moore's work the same way after reading this book. "How does a man with so many contradictions manage to blind his enormous trove of followers to how hypocritical he really is? How does he get away with it?" they ask. If the authors have their way, he won't much longer. Now that Moore has joined the ranks of the rich and powerful, Hardy and Clarke have engaged in bit of muckraking of their own. -Shawn Carkonen, Amazon. com.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.27
Review Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure, Love and Life with Fitzroy Maclean / Headline Review:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.77
Review Street Fighting Man / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-04-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.14
Review A Need to Testify / Turtle Point Press:
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 327.12730092
RRP: £20.50
Price: £17.33
Review James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence / University of Massachusetts Press:
Publication date: 2000-09-05
RRP: £20.00
Price: £2.41
Review Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:Michael Heseltine will be forever associated with dramatically toppling Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party in November 1990. However, in Life in the Jungle, his eagerly awaited autobiography following departure from public office as Deputy Prime Minister in 1995, Heseltine has written an absorbing account of life in the thick of the Westminster jungle over the last quarter of a century. This is a long but never dull book that covers Heseltine's adolescent struggle with dyslexia, presidency of the Oxford Union, his forays into the property world, the formation of his successful publishing group Haymarket, and early days as a junior minister in Edward Heath's administration. What is particularly engaging about the book is the sheer energy and scope of Heseltine's political initiatives, including selling Concorde, his courageous anti-racist positions in the aftermath of Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech, urban regeneration in the inner cities, and selling off council houses. His entrepreneurial instincts consistently vindicate his belief that if his Conservative colleagues in the 1980s "had known more about the world as it is and not how theory says it ought to be, they might have been able to make more temperate and rational contributions to the great economic debate of the 1980s". The Thatcher years, and Heseltine's own sensational resignation over the Westland affair in 1986, are dignified but a little colourless. Thatcher's behaviour over Westland is viewed as "an affront to the standards of government in which I profoundly believed". The challenge to Thatcher in 1990 vividly recaptures the tense manoeuvrings for power that brought Heseltine within a whisker of the top job, whilst his account of the Major years offers engrossing but generous accounts of his by then junior colleagues, and his final startling dalliance with a challenge for the leadership following the resignation of John Major. Life in the Jungle is a fascinating portrait of one of the most charismatic and principled Conservative politicians of recent decades, and is required reading for anyone interested in British politics in the latter half of the 20th century. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2006-10-09
Dewey code: 973.921092
RRP: £8.03
Price: £0.04
Review The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism / Harvest Books:
Publication date: 2003-06-19
Dewey code: 320.0922
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.94
Review Fifty Major Political Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2008-02-18
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.68
Review The Bush Tragedy / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2001-01-23
Dewey code: 941.70820922
RRP: £16.99
Price: £38.39
Review Blood Dark Track / Granta Books:In a literary age awash with father-fixation, Joseph O'Neill goes back a generation to recall the lives of not just one but both his grandfathers. This is not mere indulgence: their experiences connect beyond their mutual grandson, and bear comparison with each other. On the one side was Joseph Dakad, a Christian Turk living in the port of Mersin, running a hotel and an import-export business. Jim O'Neill was a Corkman with a fiercely republican heart, who supplemented his graft with salmon poaching. Both grew up among conflict and prejudice, and both suffered at the hands of the British in the Second World War: Joseph was imprisoned as a spy in British-controlled Palestine after a misconceived business trip to import lemons, while Jim was interned in the Curragh as an IRA terrorist. However, the circumstantial meat, or fruit in Joseph's case, of their lives in these famously hospitable, yet divided, countries had remained shrouded by a veil of silence for decades. While the impressively researched detail owes much to his legal training, O'Neill reconstructs his grandfathers' lives with the literary flair of the talented novelist he also is (The Breezes, and This is the Life), yet without ever losing sight of contemporary contexts such as the Good Friday Agreement, and the continuing turmoil in the Middle East. As an outsider with an "in", the conclusions he draws are subtle, profound, and in places bravely troubling, such as when considering the assassination of Protestants by Catholic extremists in the Irish Republic, and the Turkish massacre of the Armenians, of which each man respectively probably had knowledge. In identifying the unavoidable political stitch in the personal weave, though, he seeks to free both men from their exile in silence, if only, as he conjectures with admirable self-scrutiny, to perhaps "lock them up in words as a punishment for the hurt silence which they'd bequeathed my parents". The sense, however, in this splendid account, is of liberation; both of their stories, and from a silence that speaks louder than words could ever imprison. [+]-David Vincent.
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2000-08-25
Dewey code: 980.033092
Price: £14.99
Review Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life / Avalon Travel Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-10
Dewey code: 942.1085092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.29
Review Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone / Arcadia Books:
Creator: Richard Norton Smith
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-02-28
Dewey code: 973.90922
RRP: £10.95
Price: £4.33
Review The Modern American Presidency / University Press of Kansas:
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 956.9405092
RRP: £6.95
Price: £3.10
Review Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism / Balfour Books:
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 973.923092
Price: £18.74
Review Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro, Robert a. , Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) / Knopf Publishing Group:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-06
Dewey code: 929.20973
RRP: £8.54
Price: £2.50
Review Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty / Harper Perennial:
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