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

Sampson, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719565650 ISBN 13 : 9780719565656

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A compelling analysis of power (The Times)

Britain's anatomy is...illuminated by the unmatched politico-social lucidity of a fine mind...a wonderfully dismaying book (Nadine Gordimer, Times Literary Supplement)

A contemporary history with a strong sense of historical change (John Hudson, BBC History)

No one has matched Sampson's combination of analysis, networking and sharp drafting ... A model of its kind (Times Higher Education Supplement)

An exhilarating air of authority... [thanks to] its author's happy and unusual combination of wisdom and research (Mail on Sunday)

A superb diagnosis... enormously readable, containing a wealth of entertaining apercus and digressions... [and] a wit that is as sharp as his scalpel (New Statesman)

An impressive and immediate air of gravitas... Sampson is a clear thinker who manages to gently ease the reader through a vast and complex subject (Scotland on Sunday)

He has stood back from the trees and given us a view of the wood. He is right to find it rotten (Sunday Times)

[Samspson] comes shrewdly at Mr Blair from an unprotected flank (Daily Telegraph)

Sampson sees power clearly and calmly, as Trollope or Galsworthy did; and it is not a pretty sight...He comes shrewdly at Mr Blair from an unprotected flank (Daily Telegraph)

This is a wise, perceptive and not unduly pessimistic book (The Spectator)

Sampson succeeds in providing an exhaustive answer to the question he has set himself in the title (The Guardian)

The best books reveal facts which readers can barely believe that they did not know. Who Runs This Place? contains such revelations in abundance (The Observer)

Brilliantly written and deeply sobering (JG Ballard, Guardian)

Sampson's overview of today's corrupt, nepotistic, celebrity-obsessed Britain makes for fascinating, if depressing, reading (Daily Telegraph)

A coherent critique about the nature of political power in British society (The Scotsman)

His lucid prose dissects the new centres of power... A bracing read (JG Ballard, Daily Telegraph)

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)

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)

Indefatigable... in researching information and marshalling facts (The Evening Standard)

This anatomy dissects an old organism still alive and diseased with new secrets (The Times)

Many shrewd and informative chapters (Sunday Telegraph)

Sampson's last book is up there with his best (Evening Standard)

With his finely honed abilities to trace influences and links he unravels the inner workings of the Blairite Establishment with its old-boy network as well as those of modern British corporate life. (Contemporary Review)

Sampson blows away the smoke that obscures British democracy and ...dissects an old organism still alive and diseased with new secrets. (The Times)

Anthony Sampson's Who Runs This Place? Asks New Labour's central question. (Observer)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Government power: Attorney-general and Blair crony, Lord Goldsmith, confirms the legality of war in Iraq in the face of convincing counter-arguments.

Media power: Politicians resign regularly to satisfy media bloodlust and sales figures, while long-term democratic endeavour is irreparably damaged.

Corporate power: FTSE100 fat-cats enjoy salary hikes of 92% over the past 10 years to ?579,000, while inflation rises only by 25%.

Every citadel, from the murky intelligence service to the boardrooms of business moguls, is stormed. The results are remarkable for their uncompromising awareness and penetrating depth. Anthony Sampson's direct access to powerful figures, his decades of power-watching, ensure unprecedented insights into Britain's ruling elites.

But, above all, Who Runs This Place? is written for the here and now. When, in the backlash against institutional corruption, the call for accountability is becoming increasingly vocal and heartfelt. Anthony Sampson shows that only by examining who manipulates our lives can we begin to make them answer.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719565650
• ISBN 13: 9780719565656
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432