Games with Shadows

by Neal Ascherson

Book Overview

Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and original series of arguments -the politics of 'Stonehenge' the UK's archaic and undemocratic constitution, and finally examines the temptations of state power in Mrs Thatcher's decade.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448206383
• ISBN13: 9781448206384
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"