As It Seemed to Me : Political Memoirs

By John Cole

Book Overview

What really happened during the Thatcher years - the memoirs of the former Political Editor of the BBC This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857994256
• ISBN13: 9781857994254
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Phoenix
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A window onto history in the making

I took this book on holiday as a last measure...you know, the book that you will try to read after you've read everything else. My initial judgement did it serious disservice. Cole manages to combine a panoramic view of British party politics with his own acerbic, unbiased and lucid commentary on the situation 'as it seemed to me'. It's as easy and pleasurable to read as any novel. I could remember the headline events of the late 60's and 70's. I was a teenager during the three day week of the Heath government, and remember the power cuts and blackouts. Cole's book gave me a political context to understand why all of this was happening. This represents only a small part of the book. Read it for yourself, and make sense of what was going on at the time;.