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Sales Rank: 443830

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1

ISBN: 0631218130
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.94109034
EAN: 9780631218135
ASIN: 0631218130

Publication Date: October 30, 1999
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5 out of 5 stars

Hilarious, tho extremely thorough. January 21, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Michael Bentley, one of the champions of the 'high-politcal' school of thought, here wrote one of his most lasting books. As ever from Bentley, it is meticulously reearched, reying almost exclusively on primary sources, and with his deathless prose he has managed to write one of the mnost illuminating books on the history of any country I have ever read. Partly this is because it is undoubtedly also the funniest history book I have ever read, and, incongruous as that is, it is the humour that makes it all come alive. What he has to say stays with you because you enjoy it, and also because within his predilection for Wildean epigrammar he nurtures a particularly unusual (because realisitic) cynicism and straight-talkin' about the forces which shape politics. He has since disavowed this book ('I was young') but it remains a classic, and certainly something every history undergraduate should read. It got me a double first at Cambridge.