Politics from Swainby Books

Gripping...an outstanding portrait of a technocrat, at work and at home - The Wall Street Journal Evocative...relentless - The New York Times Book Review This is biography and history at its best. - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B.… Read more about this item

Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. It considers the continuing influence of advertising and commercialism in contemporary life. Not limiting his critique strictly to consumers and the advertising culture that serves them, he provides a fascinating history of the ways in which… Read more about this item

In this final volume of Woodrow Wyatt's journals, running from the April 1992 election until three months before he died in December 1997, Wyatt is in his late seventies, but his access to those in power is undiminished. John Major, Norman Lamont and Rupert Murdoch play leading roles as Wyatt writes his columns in The Times and the News of… Read more about this item