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THE POLITICAL ANIMAL: An Anatomy.

THE POLITICAL ANIMAL: An Anatomy.

THE POLITICAL ANIMAL: An Anatomy.
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THE POLITICAL ANIMAL: An Anatomy.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt, colour cartoon illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with brown+black lettering, rear panel of dw/dj with critics' reviews for a previous published author title (THE ENGLISH - see my book ID rja33769 for a UK,SIGNED,1st edn example); with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a pale green+white striped headband and immaculate plain pale green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xipp+2-340pp [paginated] includes a preface,an introduction,10 chapters and an afterword, acknowledgements,notes,a 16pp bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a contents list/table.
Why don't we like politicians? The best-selling author of 'The English' stirs things up again in a fascinating look at why governments and politicians so often fail to live up to our expectations - and their own. Politicians: they're either untrustworthy,power hungry, hypocritical misfits or hopeless idealists doomed to languish forever on the backbenches. And it's not just the public and media who think of them this way - many politicians take a similar view of their colleagues.They're in a tough, unforgiving business.Those political careers that don't end in defeat or disgrace frequently disappear into obscurity.It can take years to move from activist to candidate and then,if you're very lucky,to MP.And what sort of person likes having their business or family affairs all over the news? Or their mistakes trumpeted and their triumphs belittled? Why do people go into it? And what do they get from it all? Jeremy Paxman sets out on a quest to answer these baffling questions.And,in the process, gives us a witty,unsparing,but essentially sympathetic portrait of modern politicians and the strange world they inhabit. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but here he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers:that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhoodwhy Trollope is the politician's novelist of choicethat Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripperhow an Admiral's speech in parliament helped win WWII Where do politicians come from? How do they get elected? What do they do all day? And why do they seek power? All these questions and many more are addressed in Paxman's thrilling dissection of that strange and elusive breed – the political animal.

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Title
THE POLITICAL ANIMAL: An Anatomy.
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PAXMAN**, JEREMY:
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Used - FINE.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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Hardcover
ISBN 10
0718144228
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LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH/PENGUIN BOOKS,2002.
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London
This edition first published
2002
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