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The Political Animal
Jeremy Paxman
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Description for The Political Animal
Paperback. Where do politicians come from? How do they get elected? What do they do all day? And why do they seek power? In this title, all these questions and many more are addressed. It presents a dissection of that strange and elusive breed - the political animal. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 242.
Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood why Trollope is the politician's novelist of choice that Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripper how an Admiral's speech in parliament helped win WWII ... Read more
Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood why Trollope is the politician's novelist of choice that Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripper how an Admiral's speech in parliament helped win WWII ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141032962
SKU
V9780141032962
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.
Reviews for The Political Animal
Entertaining, informative, incisive and insightful
Andrew Rawnsley
Observer
One of the best primers on the vicissitudes of political life I have read
Christopher Silvester
Sunday Times
Entertaining, informative, incisive and insightful
Andrew Rawnsley
Observer
Lively, persuasive, excellent. Boisterous and funny, provocative and punchily written... an intelligent romp
Matthew Parris
... Read more
Andrew Rawnsley
Observer
One of the best primers on the vicissitudes of political life I have read
Christopher Silvester
Sunday Times
Entertaining, informative, incisive and insightful
Andrew Rawnsley
Observer
Lively, persuasive, excellent. Boisterous and funny, provocative and punchily written... an intelligent romp
Matthew Parris
... Read more