Order Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Thinking - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715650637 ISBN 13: 9780715650639

Publisher: G DUCKWORTH

Synopsis

Order Order

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About the Author

Ben Wright has been a Political Correspondent for the BBC since 2008. After two years leading the political coverage for BBC Breakfast and the One O'Clock News, Ben became the Chief Political Correspondent for Radio 4 in 2012, appearing daily on the Today Programme, World at One and PM. He has covered a general election, budgets, Presidential visits, Prime Ministerial trips and an expenses scandal.

Review

A thoroughly enjoyable, comprehensive book -- Harry Mount * TLS * A fascinating account of politics and drink... informative and entertaining -- Alastair Campbell author of Winners and How They Succeed Like being the only sober guest at an uproarious party * Sunday Times * Fast-paced and witty... unputdownable * The Lady * [An] entertaining history of political drinking * The Times * A breezy, anecdote-rich and instructive survey of booze and politics * The National * [An] entertaining book... often funny, though not without sombre appraisals of many curtailed careers and damaged lives * Prospect * Well researched and breezily told, Wright's book is an enjoyable romp * New Criterion * According to a new book, Order, Order! The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking by Ben Wright which looks set to be a corker... the dourest of Scots felt obliged to pretend to be a beer drinker, but harboured a private penchant for champagne, and could knock back a glass in one great gulp. * Telegraph * Alcohol has always lubricated political life... [Order, Order!] is about the British experience with examples of careers enhanced and destroyed by booze * Keith Simpson MP's Summer Reading List, Total Politics *

Edition details

• Publisher: G DUCKWORTH
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715650637
• ISBN 13: 9780715650639
• Binding: Hardcover