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Lunch with the FT : a second helping
'Lunch with the Financial Times' has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 25 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world. The column is now as well-established institution which has reinvigorated the art of conversation in the convivial, intimate environment of a long boozy lunch. On its 25th anniversary, this book showcases the most entertaining, incisive and fascinating interviews from the past five years including those with Edward Snowden, Bernie Ecclestone, Hilary Mantel, Sheryl Sandberg, Richard Branson, Rebecca Solnit, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Jordan Peterson, Nigel Farage, Woody Harrelson, Sepp Blatter, (pre-election) Donald Trump and Zoella, illustrated in full colour with James Ferguson's famous portraits.
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The Fine Art of the Political Interview
For decades veteran journalist Tom Plate, the author of the 'Giants of Asia' series, has been engineering headline-making interviews with presidents to prime ministers to mob figures. Some were easy to deal with; others were complicated challenges.
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Mississippi Politics
Originally published in 2006, Mississippi Politics quickly became the definitive work on the state?s recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, as well as how Mississippi shaped and was shaped by national and regional trends. A central theme of the 2006 edition was the state's gradual transition from a Democratic surety to a Republican stronghold. For this updated edition, authors Jere Nash and Andy Taggart examine the aftermath of the 2007 gubernatorial and 2008 presidential elections--and all the fireworks in between. This new edition adds a chapter covering the last two years and includes analyses of the 2007 and 2008 statewide, legislative, and federal elections; the resignations of Senator Trent Lott and Congressman Chip Pickering; the indictments of Richard Scruggs and other prominent lawyers; President Barack Obama's influence on the state's 2008 voting dynamics; and the election of House Speaker Billy McCoy.
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Political awakenings : conversations with history
Collects interviews with a diverse group of influential writers and activists and showcases their reflections on the experiences that shaped their political commitments.
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Leading Politicians on Jedwabne
The article analyses the views of top Polish politicians on Jedwabne tragedy on the basis of the results of telephone mini-survey. The main issue investigated was whether the disclosure of Jedwabne crime and its submission to public debate would have a cleansing effect and prove to be an important step towards normalization of Polish-Jewish relations or would it injustly slander Poland and lead to aggravation of anti-Semitism on the one-hand and anti-Polonism on the other. The attitudes of the leading politicians concerning this problem are analysed in comparison with the opinions of rank and file Poles.
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Cultures of power in post-Communist Russia : an analysis of elite political discourse
\"In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original theory of political language to narratives taken from interviews with 34 of Russia's leading political figures, Michael Urban explores the ways in which political actors construct themselves with words. By tracing individual narratives back to the discourses available to speakers, he identifies what can and cannot be intelligibly said within the bounds of the country's political culture, and then documents how elites rely on the personal elements of political discourse at the expense of those addressed to the political community. Urban shows that this discursive orientation is congruent with social relations prevailing in Russia and helps to account for the fact that, despite two revolutions proclaiming democracy in the last century, Russia remains an authoritarian state\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Barack Obama
In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores
how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative
tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the
lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama's was a landmark
presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if
any, radical shifts in policy. Following his election,
President Obama's supporters and detractors anticipated radical
reform. As the first African American to serve as president, he
reached the White House on a campaign promise of change. But
Kaufman finds in Obama clear patterns of classical conservativism
of an ideological sort and basic policy-making pragmatism. His
commitment to usher in a multiracial, multiethnic, and
multicultural society was fundamentally connected to opening up,
but not radically altering, the existing free enterprise system.
The Affordable Care Act, arguably President Obama's greatest policy
achievement, was a distillation of his complex motivations for
policy. More conservative than radical, the ACA fitted the
expansion of health insurance into the existing system. Similarly,
in foreign policy, Obama eschewed the use of force to affect regime
change. Yet he kept boots on the ground in the Middle East and
supported ballot-box revolts geared toward achieving in foreign
countries the same principles of liberalism, free enterprise, and
competition that existed in the United States.
In estimating the course and impact of Obama's full political
life, Kaufman makes clear that both the desire for and fear of
change in the American polity affected the popular perception but
not the course of action of the forty-fourth US president.
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