Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century - Softcover

Sampson, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719565650 ISBN 13: 9780719565656

Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004

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'An important book, raising an increasingly urgent set of questions about who has the power in Tony Blair's Britain, and for whom they exercise it.' -- The Spokesman Manifesto 50 20050301 PRAISE FOR MANDELA: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY 'This will be the last word on Mandela for years to come; it also becomes the central text in all future discussion of the momentous and peaceful transfer of power from white to black in South Africa ! it will be hard to improve upon this crowning conclusion to Sampson's long career as a loving and expert chronicler of South Africa.' -- J.D.F. JONES, Evening Standard 'Measured, detailed without a moment of tedium, incisive in its perceptions and, at times, profoundly moving.' -- RONALD SEGAL, Observer 'Warmly to be welcomed, not least because it is more substantial and revealing than Mandela's bestselling autobiography ! This biography is a great leap forward in our understanding of a man who is both enigmatic and private!Anthony Sampson has carried out his difficult commission with skill and sensitivity.' -- DENIS JUDD, Independent 'A magisterial, detailed and invaluable account of one of this century's greatest figures ! it is hard to believe that a better biography will ever be written.' -- JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT, Sunday Telegraph 'This anatomy dissects an old organism still alive and diseased with new secrets' -- The Times 20050219 'The leap this books asks us to make -- the comparison between the Britain of 1962 and that of 2004 -- is useful and hugely instructive.' -- Guardian 20050219 'Sampson's overview of today's corrupt, nepotistic, celebrity-obsessed Britain makes for fascinating, if depressing, reading' -- Daily Telegraph 20050212 'Sampson's last book is up there with his best' -- Evening Standard 20050128 'Sampson blows away the smoke that obscures British democracy and ...dissects an old organism still alive and diseased with new secrets.' -- The Times 20050219 'Anthony Sampson's Who Runs This Place? Asks New Labour's central question.' -- Observer 20040320

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Forty years ago Anthony Sampson wrote his indispensable best-seller The Anatomy of Britain. Now he has felt drawn back to the task by exasperation with the lack of democracy and accountability in Blair's Britain. How has power become so concentrated in so few hands? Whatever happened to all those alternative centres -- like parliament, the monarchy, the regions or the cabinet? Why are company directors, lawyers or accountants so unanswerable to the people they represent? Sampson follows 'the will o' the wisp of power' through each profession vividly describing the new people at the top: corporate chiefs in place of hereditary landowners, Islington media couples in place of Kensington toffs. He finds still more power concentrating on Downing Street, which has never been more distant from parliament -- or closer to big business. After four decades of power-watching Sampson is now more impatient with the abuses. But he is hopeful that the British people will finally reassert their democratic rights, whether as voters or shareholders.This new Anatomy provides an insider's tour, with exceptional sources; but it is on the side of the outsider, written for ordinary citizens who want to know who manipulates their lives -- and how to make them answer.

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• Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719565650
• ISBN 13: 9780719565656
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432