The Blair revolution revisited (dedikált példány)

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í The Blair Revolution was written in the heyday of New Labour, when all lay before us. This was a time of excitement when, for the Labour party, there certainly was a 'revolution' under way. The sacred texts of the party's constitution had just been rewritten; stances taken since the 1970s were being scrapped and policies refashioned. New members were flooding in, and this book was an attempt to make sense of it all and give the emperor - the party, that is, not its leader - some clothes to wear and a route map to follow.'
First published in 1996, as Tony Blair was making his inexorable progress towards 10 Downing Street, The Blair Revolution by Peter Mandelson and Roger Liddle asked, 'Can New Labour deliver?' In this new edition, published after five years of Blair government, Peter Mandelson - acknowledged architect of the New Labour project - confronts a more awkward question: 'Has it delivered?' The answer is an absorbing and remarkably candid audit of the greatest revolution... Tovább

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í The Blair Revolution was written in the heyday of New Labour, when all lay before us. This was a time of excitement when, for the Labour party, there certainly was a 'revolution' under way. The sacred texts of the party's constitution had just been rewritten; stances taken since the 1970s were being scrapped and policies refashioned. New members were flooding in, and this book was an attempt to make sense of it all and give the emperor - the party, that is, not its leader - some clothes to wear and a route map to follow.'
First published in 1996, as Tony Blair was making his inexorable progress towards 10 Downing Street, The Blair Revolution by Peter Mandelson and Roger Liddle asked, 'Can New Labour deliver?' In this new edition, published after five years of Blair government, Peter Mandelson - acknowledged architect of the New Labour project - confronts a more awkward question: 'Has it delivered?' The answer is an absorbing and remarkably candid audit of the greatest revolution in modern British politics.
í Blair's revolution is a long way from completion. We have made mistakes, but basically got it right. To sustain a revolution, you have to nurture and replenish your revolutionaries. By looking back to the beginnings, reviewing the government's record and taking forward new thinking, I hope The Blair Revolution Revisited will help recharge Blair's revolutionaries and enable them to find new allies for the challenges ahead.' Vissza