A personal and political biography, it is the product of intensive research by way of interviews with many people from cabinet ministers to the boy he played football with in the street, as well as his family and John Major himself.
Edward Pearce Bücher
Looks through the prism of two momentous political issues - Irish Home Rule and the reform of the House of Lords - to describe not the forces for change, but the forces for resistance to change. It is a revisionist history of British politics from 1886 to 1914, drawing on contemporary media.
Kniha pojednává o odkazu Machiavelliho učení v současné politice, kdy se soustředí na pragmatismus a morálku v činech světových vládců a politiků. Zaměřuje se na jednání státníků jakými byli: De Gaulle, Thatcherová, Kennedy, Bush, Wilson, ale i Mussolini, Franco, Hitler a Stalin