The Complete Reflections : Conversations with Politicians

Hennessy, Peter/ Shepherd, Robert

Haus Publishing（2020/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 800 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781912208982
• DDC分類 320.0941

Full Description

On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringing together transcripts of the collected interviews for the first time, The Complete Reflections features interviews the biggest names from the Thatcher era, the New Labour years, and the coalition government of the 2010s. In The Complete Reflections, Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepherd provide not only an overview of the past three decades of British politics but also delve into the minds of those at the forefront of public life during times of great change. Hennessy's deep knowledge and understanding of the lives and motivations of his interviewees, along with the obvious esteem in which they hold their interlocutor, leads to frank and revealing conversations in which the subject is not an object but an equal, giving these exchanges a unique veracity. The results are portraits of high authority, in which interviews become the chronicles that endure above all others--nothing less than the first draft of history.

Contents

Acknowledgements // vii

Foreword by Melvyn Bragg // viii

Preface // xii

Shirley Williams (Baroness Williams of Crosby) // 1

Jack Straw // 33

Norman Tebbit (Lord Tebbit) // 59

Neil Kinnock (Lord Kinnock) // 85

John Major (Sir John Major) // 107

Roy Hattersley (Lord Hattersly) // 125

David Steel (Lord Steel of Aikwood) // 149

Margaret Beckett (Dame Margaret Beckett) // 171

David Owen (Lord Owen) // 195

Nigel Lawson (Lord Lawson of Blaby) // 221

Clare Short // 247

Michael Heseltine (Lord Heseltine) // 277

Vince Cable (Sir Vince Cable) // 311

Margaret Hodge (Dame Margaret Hodge) // 341

Kenneth Baker (Lord Baker of Dorking) // 371

Tony Blair // 411)

William Hague (Lord Hague of Richmond) // 445

Harriet Harman // 473

Michael Howard (Lord Howard of Lympne) // 499

Paddy Ashdown (Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon) // 533

Sayeeda Warsi (Baroness Warsi) // 565

David Blunkett (Lord Blunkett) // 597

Iain Duncan Smith (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) // 625

Chris Patten (Lord Patten of Barnes) // 659

Alan Johnson // 687

Norman Lamont (Lord Lamont of Lerwick) // 719

Peter Hain (Lord Hain of Neath) // 749

Picture Credits // 775

Index // 778