After the Neocons
By Francis Fukuyama
(Published by Profile Books Ltd)
Review by Ben Rogers
The Islamist
By Ed Husain
(Published by Penguin)
Review by Benedict Rogers
Words that work; It's not what you say, it's what people hear
By Frank Luntz
(Published by Hyperion, New York, 2007)
Reviewed by Damian Collins
Continue reading "Words that work; It's not what you say, it's what people hear" »
The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand
By Chris Anderson
(Random House, July 2006)
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie
A shorter version of this review appeared in Saturday's Times' Ten Books Of 2006.
Continue reading "The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand" »
Maggie: Her Fatal Legacy
By John Sergeant
(Published by Macmillan, Feb 2005)
Reviewed by Tim Aker
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Published by Simon & Schuster Oct, 2005)
Review by Graeme Brown
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The Ambassadors
Murder In Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of
Tyranny in the War on Terror
By the UK’s former Ambassador to
Uzbekistan, Craig Murray
DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to
the US at the Time of 9/11 and the Run-up to the Iraq War
By the UK’s
former Ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer
Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025
By former US Ambassador to Hungary, Mark Palmer
Reviewed by Ben Rogers
Celsius 7/7
By Michael Gove
(published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
Reviewed from different perspectives by Robert Halfon and Brian Jenner
Good Business: Your World Needs You
By Steve Hilton
and Giles Gibbons
(Published by Texere)
Review by Brian Jenner
The British Moment: Fighting Back For A Principled Foreign Policy
The Henry Jackson Society
(Published by the Social Affairs unit)
Review by William Norton
Continue reading "The British Moment: Fighting Back For A Principled Foreign Policy" »
Londonistan
By Melanie Phillips
(Published by Encounter Books)
Review by Jeremy Brier
The European Question and the National Interest
By Jeremy Black
(Published by the Social Affairs Unit, Jan 2006)
Review by William Norton
Continue reading "The European Question and the National Interest " »
Compassionate Conservatism: What is is and why we need it
By Jesse Norman and Janan Ganesh
(Published by Policy Exchange, June 2006)
Reviewed by Henry Curteis
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The Politically Correct Scrapbook
By John and Laura Midgley
(Published by the Campaign Against Political Correctness)
Reviewed by Adrian Owens
The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P Huntington
(Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd, February 1997)
Reviewed by William Norton
Continue reading "The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order" »
Nothing Like A Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter
by Andrew Hosken
(published by Granta 2006)
Reviewed by Brian Jenner February 17th 2006
Continue reading "Nothing Like A Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter" »
The Bumper Book of Government Waste: The scandal of the squandered billions from Lord Irvine's wallpaper to EU saunas
By Matthew Elliott and Lee Rotherham
Harriman House Publishing
Reviewed by William Norton on 28th March 2006
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America
Book by Thurston Clarke
(Henry Holt & Company, October 2004)
Reviewed by Damian Collins on 22nd March 2006
Neoconservatism: why we need it
Book by Douglas Murray
(Social Affairs Unit 2005)
Reviewed by Jeremy Brier on 14th February 2006.
Welcome to the books blog
Last week Alexander Deane submitted a review of Plato's Children for the Platform blog but it prompted the idea that ConservativeHome should really offer its own regular review of important books. Alex's review launches this blog but also posted are some of the book reviews that the old Renewing One Nation team produced for that group's now defunct website.
'R1N' was founded in 2000 by Lord Kalms and William Hague to identify Conservative solutions to social exclusion. Its work was largely taken over by the Centre for Social Justice when it was launched in summer 2004.
Plato's Children: The State We Are In
Book by Anthony O'Hear
(Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2005)
Reviewed by Alexander Deane on 7th February 2006
To Empower People: from State to Civil Society
Book by Peter L Berger and Richard John Neuhaus
(FTP, 1996 (Twentieth Anniversary Edition))
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie on 1 August 2001
Continue reading "To Empower People: from State to Civil Society" »
The Sex-Change Society
Book by Melanie Phillips
(Social Market Foundation, 1999)
Reviewed by Cameron Watt on 11 August 2001
Justice That Restores
Book by Charles W Colson
(IVP, 2000)
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie on 1 October 2001
Relational Justice: Repairing the Breach
Book by Jonathan Burnside and Nicola Baker (Editors)
(The Relationships Foundation, 1994)
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie on 30 October 2001
Continue reading "Relational Justice: Repairing the Breach" »
The War Against Boys
Book by Christina Hoff Summers
(Simon and Schuster, 2000)
Reviewed by Peter Franklin on 1 December 2001
The Tragedy of American Compassion
Book by Marvin Olasky
(Regnery, 1992)
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie on 1 December 2001
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