Full name: The Political Animal: An Anatomy

Author: Jeremy Paxman Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780718144227 9780141032962 0718144228 0141032960

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 childhood why Trollope is the politician's novelist of choice that Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripper how 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. Similar books: Big Lies by Joe Conason The New Thought Police by Tammy Bruce If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter A Deficit Of Decency by Zell Miller We're Right, They're Wrong by James Carville How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald The Ten Things You Can't Say In America by Larry Elder Slander by Ann Coulter Ameritopia by Mark R. Levin The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank Shut Up & Sing by Laura Ingraham Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder by Michael Savage Treason by Ann Coulter Why Americans Hate Politics by E. J. Dionne Jr. Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin One Nation by Ben Carson A Warning by Anonymous