The New Elites: Making a Career in the Masses - Rilegato

Walden, George

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0713993170 ISBN 13: 9780713993172

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2000

Riassunto

Far from being classless, Britain is increasingly ruled by oligarchies of professional egalitarians. By exploiting popular sentiment and taste, the privileged and opportunistic can earn fortunes and occupy positions of authority, while all the time protesting that they are only giving the public what it wants. In a performance both witty and merciless, Walden unmasks these new élites, a class whose ambitions for social control rival their aristocratic forebears and whose populism is in its way as damaging to democracy. This book will be required reading for anyone who finds modern Britain maudlin, intolerant and conceited, anyone who despairs of our growing ignorance and chauvinism - in short anyone who has visited the Millennium Dome.

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L'autore:

George Walden was Private Secretary to David Owen and Lord Carrington at the Foreign Office, before embarking on a second career as MP for Buckingham and government minister. His memoirs, LUCKY GEORGE, were published to great acclaim and controversyin 1999.

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Book by Walden George

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0713993170
• ISBN 13: 9780713993172
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224