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An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential election from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture.With new, updated material, P. J. O’Rourke covers the whole elect …
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women’s rights, Abori …
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In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd year …
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The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist’s Russia editor.’Fast-paced and excellently written’ New York Ti …
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WINNER OF THE 2017 AL-RODHAN PRIZENever in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentiall …
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During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens – perhaps hundreds – of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in ‘Invitation Only Zones’, high-security detention-centre …
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‘This survey of British political crises is invaluable for anyone concerned with politics today, and it reinforces George Santayana’s dictum that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.. …
The Endgame is the gripping and authoritative account of the secret military and political effort to pull Iraq from the precipice of full-scale civil war. The book fuses unrivalled access to the in-fi …
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‘Don’t write crap. Can’t be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.’ Julia GillardWhen Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 …
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‘It’s fair to say that Peter Hitchens remains one of the most misrepresented figures in the British media… Hitchens is in reality one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent commentators on li …
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In 1846 the philosopher Henry Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay his taxes. He did so on the grounds that he did not recognise the authority of a government that ‘buys and sells men, women, and ch …
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Economist Books of the Year, 2007 Financial Times Books of the Year, 2007God and Gold is a brilliantly stimulating and provocative look at why, for over 300 years, the Anglo-Saxon powers have dominate …
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The economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has drastically altered the logic of international relations. Globalisation no longer benefits all the world’s superpowers and they face an array of g …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE PADDY POWER POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2014 In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its …
Named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, the Profumo Affair was the biggest British political scandal of 1963. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet …
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‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,’ wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of the new capitalist worl …
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