Lang's autobiography offers an insider's view of the British government under Margaret Thatcher when Lang was a Conservative Minister of Parliament for Galloway. He writes of his involvement in Scottish policy within the Union (he was Secretary of State for Scotland in 1990), his travels and activities as President of the Board of Trade in 1995, and his family's roots and life in Ayrshire, Scotland. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Blue Remembered Years: A Political Memoir

Lang, Ian

Biographies & Memoirs

Politicos Pub

Democracy Under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom

Politics & Social Sciences

David Beetham

Politics & Government

Memories of the Falklands

Dale is a political publisher, commentator, author, and founder of the Politico's group of companies, who began his career as a political researcher in the House of Commons before becoming a lobbyist and financial journalist. He presents this text not to address the rights and wrongs of political or military strategy, but rather as a collection of personal memories, anecdotes and reminiscences of the Falklands War. It includes recollections of soldiers and sailors who fought in the war, as well as Falkland Islanders, politicians and journalists. Royalties of the book are being donated to the British Forces Foundation, whose aim is to provide morale-boosting entertainment to Britain's Armed Forces on Operations. Illustrated in b&amp;w. No subject index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

History

World

Partly in response to the very low voter turnout for the 2001 general election, the Home Secretary for the current British Labour government suggests how to renew and strengthen democratic politics. He argues that government must retain democratic legitimacy, that prosperity must be balanced with social fairness and quality of life, and that a civic culture and sense of common identity must be sustained while recognizing diversity. He has not indexed his treatise. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Politics and Progress: Renewing Democracy and Civil Society

Blunkett, David

Denman finished his long career as a British diplomat by going to Washington as Ambassador of the European Communities 1982-89. Now retired, he describes the unusual life and culture of the diplomatic guild, drawing on his own experience and testimony of his former colleagues. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Mandarin's Tale

Denman, Roy

Administrative Law

Nott, active in British politics from 1966 to 1983, tells the story of his careers in politics and in business. His memoirs describe his army service with the Gurkhas in Malaya, his career in business in London, and his terms in Parliament during the Thatcher administration. B&amp;w personal photos are included. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Reccollections of an Errant Politician

Nott, John

Leaders & Notable People

Originally published in 1996 as The Blair Revolution , this work by British Labour MP Mandelson is only technically "revisited" with the addition of an introduction that touts the benefits for the British electorate of Tony Blair's "third way" political strategy. The rest of the text is an exact reproduction of the 1996 work in which Mandelson argues that Labour's capitulation to global capital will be good for the party and for Britain itself. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Blair Revolution Revisited

Mandelson, Peter

Europe

In a revealing examination of the workings of government, Martin Stanley, a civil servant himself, describes how to enter the civil service, work with ministers, address the media, avoid pitfalls and avoid conflicts of interest.

How to be a Civil Servant

Stanley, Martin

The Dictionary of Liberal Biography brings together in one volume the biographies of over 200 individuals who have made major contributions to the Liberal Party, SDP or Liberal Democrats, or the the development of British Liberalism.Significant new essays have been contributed by senior academics on some of Britain's most important historical figures, including William Gladstone, David Lloyd George and Jo Grimond. Liberal thinkers, including Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes; Victorian statesmen, such as Lord Aberdeen and Viscount Palmerston; and postwar MPs, including Jeremy Thorpe, Cyril Smith and David Penhaligon, have also been critically profiled. All the Liberal Democrat MPs elected in 1997, including Paddy Ashdown, and leading Liberal Democrat peers, such as Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins, are also included.

Dictionary of Liberal Biography

Brack, Duncan

Dictionary of Liberal Quotations

The Dictionary of Liberal Quotations includes over two thousand quotations by and about Liberal Democrats, Liberals and Social Democrats. More than six hundred prominent politicians, writers and others are included.The Dictionary includes quotes from Liberal and Social Democrat leaders from Kennedy to Gladstone and from Jenkins to Lloyd George. Important extracts from the writings of prominent Liberal and Social Democrat thinkers, including Paine, Hume, Mill, Hobhouse and Dahrendorf have been selected for the Dictionary. Quotes about Liberals and Social Democrats and about liberalism and social democracy from a wide range of critics, from Thatcher to Disraeli and from Karl Marx to Kenneth Williams can also be found inside.

Reference

Brack, ed Duncan

Quotations

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