The ‘special relationship’ was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macmillan, Thatcher and Reagan, Bush and Blair, and the present incumbents.
The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit
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Edition:Hardback978178649465803/09/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
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Riotous combination of journalism and cartoons about the iniquities of resource extraction in the Canadian subarctic.
Paying the Land
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Architecture, landscape, collections, books, food and wine - with contributions by Jon Meacham, Alice Waters, Jay McInerney, Annette Gordon-Reed, Xavier Salomon and others.
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
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First UK publication of this celebrated C20th century American poet. Coleman is known as the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles'; her poems are defiant, frank and vivid in their treatme... read more
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
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