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Fine condition.Simon & Schuster,2003.First UK edition-second printing(3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(small nick,crease and scratch on the Dj cover),both in fine condition.The book is as new with a small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first page of the book,very small crease on the edge of the pages.368pp including Appendix:Resignation Speech, 17 March 2003.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: Cook made headlines last spring as one of those who resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet in protest over the coming Iraq war. There's a lot in this diary of the past two years about his growing feelings against the war, his objections largely based on belief that Saddam didn't have any unconventional weapons and that the links between Saddam and Osama bin Laden were tenuous at best. As Cook puts it, the need for war because Saddam had unconventional weapons might have carried more credibility if both the US and then the British governments had not been together in it up to their armpits in creating that capacity in the first place. Cook also repeats what are now familiar arguments: specifically, that the policy of containment was working, and that nonmilitary intervention would have been more effective. He's generally respectful and polite toward Blair describing him as the most successful Labor leader in recent years but he calls supporting the war the wrong choice for Britain. His are familiar arguments, but Cook expresses them well and offers a dash of much-needed humanism in a polarized world. He also offers a pragmatist's vision for the future intended as a prescription for non-Blair leftists. Unfortunately, he does not follow through enough on the title's promise-the book fails to stick to the point. Cook spends too much time discussing British parliamentary reform, a topic unlikely to find much resonance among American readers. But those interested in what a principled British politician who opposed the war in Iraq has to say about that war will want to take a look.…
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- Titre
- Point of Departure
- Auteur
- Cook, Robin
- Éditeur
- Simon & Schuster
- Année de publication
- 2003
- État de l'article
- Fine
- Jaquette
- Fine
- Reliure
- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 0743252551
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9780743252553
- Édition
- First UK edition-second printing.
- Catalogues du vendeur
- Biographies & Memoirs
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Revue de presse
'Robin Cook's Point of Departure provides the best insight yet into the workings of the Blair cabinet. His diary entries are highly readable, and sometimes very funny' Elinor Goodman, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph 30/11
'Cook does not accuse Blair of deliberate deception. Cook's restraint makes an even more damning case. He guides the reader towards a devastating guilty verdict on the Prime Minister without making too many sweeping judgments himself. While narrating a tragic and humiliating failure in foreign policy, Cook also manages to be very funny' Independent on Sunday, Political Books of the Year 14/12
'Instant history can tell us how events appeared before they became obscured in the fog of hindsight. For hindsight is the great enemy of the historian. We forget, all too easily, that what is now in the past once lay in the future. Instant history, especially when, as with Robin Cook's Point of Departure, it is based on the diary of a participant, is history written when the outcome was still unknown' FT, UK Politics
'The best-written and most thoroughly researched of the post-election batch of cabinet biographies,' Peter Kellner, Evening Standard.
'This thoroughly researched and well-crafted biography has both revelations and insights to offer about the life of one of the most intriguing members of this government,' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer
'An admirable instant biography, taking in all its subject's trials and tribulations since he came to office,' Anthony Howard's political books of the year, 1998, Sunday Times
"Devastating on how Blair found himself taking Britain to war in the shadow of President Bush, after 'grossly distorting', in Cook's phrase, the threat of Saddam's weapon's to the world"
Sunday Times 29/8
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