The Blair Years jellemzők

A publishing sensation on its hardback publication last year, The Blair Years is the most revealing account of contemporary politics you'll ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair#s leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade.
Campbell is no stranger to controversy. As Blair's press secretary, strategist and trusted confidant, he was pivotal to New Labour and its three election victories, spending more waking hours alongside the Prime Minister than anyone. His diaries - at times brutally frank, often funny, always compelling - take the reader right to the heart of government.
The Blair Years covers the defining events of our time, from Labour's new dawn to the war on terror, from the death of Diana to peace in Northern Ireland, from Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, through to the Hutton Inquiry of 2003, the year Campbell resigned. But amid the big events are insights and observations that make this a remarkably human portrayal of some of the most powerful people in the world.
There has never been so riveting a book about life at the very top, nor a more human book about politics, told by a man who saw it all.