John Major's autobiography is one of the most personal and revealing ever written by a former British Prime Minister.Eagerly awaited, the remark... read full description
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Jan 08, 2012
Kyle
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I was lucky enough to be in London when I was reading this book. The only problem was that I had been back in the States for 3 weeks before I finished it!!! There was an extraordinary amount of detail that just didn’t interest me (i.e., Major went into an inordinate amount of detail when he talked about Cabinet reshuffles, giving me the names and personal history of every practically every cabinet member.). He also often got into too much details when talking about other political issues: the mo
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Aug 09, 2011
A truly revealing - and at times very humorous - account of a man, who history and conventional wisdom have derided as "the boring bloke between Thatcher and Blair". Instead, John Major was in power for six and a half years, during which some of the most important events of the post-Cold War era occurred (and that's before you even consider the pivotal role he played in the latter years of the Thatcher government). Understanding Major's take on those events then is vitally important, a
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Sep 24, 2011
William
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I wanted to read this book both because of the Speaker Series and because I will be going to London later this year. It has taught me about some of the culture and politics of that great land. Yet, John Major drones on about topics in way too much detail. I usually enjoy the first 10 pages of every chapter at which point he chooses to drag the subject into areas that often don't seem related.
Aug 30, 2011
Kristina
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This was a long read but fascinating for me to go back over the Major government as it was the first one I could have voted for and so I was more politically aware than I was previously.
I do remember that John Major had a very bad press often, and reading the autobiography I sometimes struggled to work out why. He was never a dramatic politician, normally conciliatory and forced to be more so by the Euro-sceptic faction in the Conservative party.
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I do remember that John Major had a very bad press often, and reading the autobiography I sometimes struggled to work out why. He was never a dramatic politician, normally conciliatory and forced to be more so by the Euro-sceptic faction in the Conservative party.
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Jul 27, 2008
Gary
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looooooong - read it in the days before i would put a book down when bored stiff
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