This Honourable House by Edwina Currie - ISBN: 9780751532180
Paperback
Politics, power, and personal cost: where is the honour in it?

This Honourable House

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2003

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Summary

Politicians are amongst the most reviled and distrusted of all professionals. Nevertheless, honourable men and women do put themselves forward to help run the country, whether out of conviction, altruism, vanity or ambition.

Under pressure - from the electorate, from colleagues, from what Harold Macmillan called ‘events’ - how can they maintain their integrity? How do they learn to anticipate trouble - and to avoid it?

When press and public are increasingly bored with serious …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780751532180
ISBN-10:0751532185
Author:Edwina Currie
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Sphere
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:1 September 2003
Weight:481g
Dimensions:198mm x 126mm x 35mm
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Critics Review

Politics and parliament and all their nasty shenanigans are obviously well known to Ms. Currie…a true and accurate portrait.

  • Politics and parliament and all their nasty shenanigans are obviously well known to Ms. Currie.a true and accurate portrait.’ - DAILY EXPRESS * ‘No-one is better qualified to write political blockbusters than Edwina Currie.more readable than the contents of any red box.’ - HELLO * ‘Edwina possesses a brass neck, a silver tongue and a golden pen’ - JULIAN CRITCHLEY
About The Author

Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie is a former Government minister and for fourteen years was the well-known member of parliament for Derbyshire South. She is now a successful BBC broadcaster (Late Night Currie) and bestselling novelist.

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