Tony Blair: The Man Behind the Smile |
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Leo Abse
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Pages: 252 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1861053649
Pub: Robson Books Ltd
Pub date: 2001-03-22
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 733900
Reader Reviews:
A fantastic psychoanalytical deconstruction of the PM (5/5 people found this helpful)
This is not only an exploration ino the mind of the supposedly most powerful man in Britain, but an opportunity for the inexperienced to pick up little pop-psychology as well. Useful for anyone trying to find clarity or a linear structure in Blair's policy-making programme, Abse's book is critical but constructively so. Will certainly draw you to read other psychoanalytical biographies. A thoroughly enjoyable read and, despite the occasionally extremely dense nature of the analysis and length of the author's tangents when he touches on a psychological theory particularly close to his heart, unputdownable. .
Abse had him right (2/2 people found this helpful)
This book was first published in 1996 and told us more then than most so-called columnists of the year have told us since about Blair and his -ism. Abse is a curious, eccentric soul but here he settles into deconstructing Blair and explaining why, to many of us, the PM is so self-consciously and not so self-consciously WEIRD. Timely and terrific and good to see it updated and back in print.
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