The Hubris Syndrome : Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power

Owen, David Anthony Llewellyn

ISBN 10: 1842752197 / ISBN 13: 9781842752197

Published by Methuen & Company, Limited, 2007

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Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hubris Syndrome : Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power
• Publisher: Methuen & Company, Limited
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842752197
• ISBN 13: 9781842752197
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.397 pounds

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Synopsis

For many politicians, power seems to go to their head, and becomes a heady drug affecting every action they take. The Greeks called it hubris, where the hero wins glory, acclaim and success - but it is often followed by nemesis. David Owen suggests George Bush and Tony Blair developed a Hubristic Syndrome while in power. He provides a powerful analysis, looking at their behaviour, beliefs and governing style, in particular the nature of their hubristic incompetence in handling the Iraq War. Both of them, and in her last year in office, Margaret Thatcher, developed many of the tell-tale and defining symptoms. A statesman, politician and medical doctor, with personal knowledge of the war in the Balkans, David Owen has unique insight into Blair's premiership, including several meetings and conversations with Blair from 1996-2004. With his long political experience, Owen has written a devastating critique of the way that Bush and Blair manipulated intelligence and failed to plan for the aftermath of taking Baghdad. Their messianic manner, excessive confidence in their own judgement, and unshakeable belief that they will be vindicated by a 'higher court', have doomed what the author believes could have been a successful democratic transformation of Iraq.

About the Author

David Owen served as Foreign Secretary under James Callaghan from 1977 until 1979, and co-founded and went on to lead the Social Democratic Party. He is the author of Balkan Odyssey, The Hubris Syndrome, In Sickness and In Power, and Time to Declare.