{"product_id":"defending-politics-9781444351330","title":"Defending Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of Bernard Crick''s writings comprising everything he ever wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe Political Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e from the late 1950s to 2008 - newly re-edited and with an Introduction, the collection reveals the intellectual and political development, as well as the wit and style, of one of the most intriguing public intellectuals of the postwar period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes articles, reviews, all assignable commentaries, and the first chapter of his abandoned history of the \u003ci\u003ePolitical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e journal, from the late 1950s to 2008\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe earliest pieces coincide with his beginnings as a new lecturer at the LSE, follows his ideas, insights and preoccupations through his years as author of the classic \u003ci\u003eIn Defence of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e and his biography of Orwell, to his later work with the Home Office on citizenship and articles written in the last year of his life.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how a person universally described in his 2008 obituaries as ambitious, self-centred and pers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Stephen Ball\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Stephen Ball\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Articles and book chapters, 1960 to 2009\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Socialist Literature in the 1950s (1960)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Campus and the Caucus (1962)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 What Should the Lords Be Doing? (1963)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Prospects for Parliamentary Reform (1965)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Future of the Labour Government (1967)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Time to Reason (book chapter, 1970)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The 1970s in Retrospect (1970)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Social Trends and Statistical Services (Reports and Surveys, 1971)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Strange Death of the American Theory of Consensus (1972)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Paying for the Parties (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Character of a Moderate (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Some Socialist Books (Reports and Surveys, 1977)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 A Meditation on Socialism and Nine Theories (1980)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Future of the Labour Party (1983)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e (1985)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Fundamental Condition of Labour (1987)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The State of Our Civil Liberties (1989)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The English and the British (book chapter, 1991)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Ambushes and Advances: the Scottish Act 1998 (1995)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times (1997)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Still Missing: A Public Philosophy? (1997)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Introduction to \u003ci\u003eCitizens: Towards a Citizenship Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (book chapter, 2001)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Justifications of Violence (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Do We Really Need Britannia? (2007; as book chapter, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Four Nations: Interrelations (2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Reviews, 1957 to 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1950s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFabian International Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by T. E. M. McKitterick and Kenneth Younger (1957)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933\u003c\/i\u003e, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (1958)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House of Lords and Contemporary Politics: 1911–1957\u003c\/i\u003e, by P. A. Bromhead; \u003ci\u003eLa Chambre des Lords au XXe Siècle: 1911–1949\u003c\/i\u003e, by Michel Bouissou (1958)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOppression and Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e, by Simone Weil; \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e, by Hannah Arendt (1959)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1960s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ernest Gellner (1960)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial Principles and the Democratic State\u003c\/i\u003e, by S. I. Benn and R. S. Peters; \u003ci\u003eBritish Conservatism, 1832–1914\u003c\/i\u003e, by R. B. McDowell; \u003ci\u003eThe Analysis of Political Systems\u003c\/i\u003e, by Douglas V. Verney (1960)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Social Enquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, by Quentin Gibson; \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Human Society\u003c\/i\u003e, by Walter Goldschmidt (1960)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, by Louis J. Halle; \u003ci\u003eA New History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e, by William Miller; \u003ci\u003eSenator Joe McCarthy\u003c\/i\u003e, by Richard Rovere; \u003ci\u003eThe Coming of the New Deal\u003c\/i\u003e, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (1961)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Upheaval\u003c\/i\u003e, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr (1961)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art and Practice of Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e, by Sir Charles Webster (1962)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilkes and Liberty: A Social Study of 1763 to 1774\u003c\/i\u003e, by George Rudé (1962)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Appeasers\u003c\/i\u003e, by Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott (1963)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFuturibles: Studies in Conjecture\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Bertrand de Jouvenel; \u003ci\u003eThe Pure Theory of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, by Bertrand de Jouvenel (1964)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, by Hannah Arendt (1964)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaths of American Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr, and Morton White; \u003ci\u003eThe First New Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, by Seymour Martin Lipset; \u003ci\u003eAmerican Aspects\u003c\/i\u003e, by D. W. Brogan; \u003ci\u003eParty and Society: Voting Behaviour in Anglo-American Democracies\u003c\/i\u003e, by Robert R. Alford; \u003ci\u003eInterest Groups in American Society\u003c\/i\u003e, by Harmon Zeigler (1964)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen and Work: The Autobiography of Lord Citrine\u003c\/i\u003e (1965)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnglish History: 1914–1945\u003c\/i\u003e, by A. J. P. Taylor (1966)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Financial Control\u003c\/i\u003e, by Gordon Reid (1967)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFour Essays on Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e, by Isaiah Berlin (1969)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1970s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, by Hannah Arendt; \u003ci\u003eViolence\u003c\/i\u003e, by Jacques Ellul; \u003ci\u003eWhy Men Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ted Robert Gurr (1971)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKingsley: The Life, Letters and Diaries of Kingsley Martin\u003c\/i\u003e, by C. H. Rolph (1973)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Thought and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ernest Gellner (1974)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGollancz: The Story of a Publishing House, 1928–1978\u003c\/i\u003e, by Sheila Hodges (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1980s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding the United Kingdom: The Territorial Dimension in Government\u003c\/i\u003e, by Richard Rose; \u003ci\u003eThe Territorial Dimension in United Kingdom Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Peter Madgwick and Richard Rose; \u003ci\u003eThe English World: History, Character and People\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Robert Blake (1983)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Beatrice Webb\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie. Volume One 1873–1892, \u003ci\u003eGlitter Around and Darkness Within\u003c\/i\u003e. Volume Two: 1892–1905, \u003ci\u003eAll the Good Things of Life\u003c\/i\u003e.Volume Three: 1905–1924, \u003ci\u003eThe Power to Alter Things\u003c\/i\u003e. Volume Four: \u003ci\u003eThe Wheel of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1986)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnglishness: Politics and Culture, 1880–1920\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd (1986)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Trouble: Autobiographical Explorations and Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e, by James D. Young (1988)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1990s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Curriculum History Working Group: Final Report\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe British Isles: A History of Four Nations\u003c\/i\u003e, by Hugh Kearney; \u003ci\u003eBritain: A Plural Society. Report of a Seminar\u003c\/i\u003e;  \u003ci\u003ePatriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Raphael Samuel, 3 vols; \u003ci\u003eGames with Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, by Neal Ascherson; \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, by Tom Nairn; \u003ci\u003eThe Divided Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, by John Osmond (1990)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Future of Northern Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary; \u003ci\u003eInterpreting Northern Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, by John Whyte; \u003ci\u003eInequality in Northern Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, by David Smith and Gerald Chambers; \u003ci\u003eNorthern Ireland since 1945\u003c\/i\u003e, by Sabine Wichert; \u003ci\u003eNorthern Ireland: Politics and the Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Brigid Hadfield; \u003ci\u003eThe Northern Ireland Question: Myth and Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Patrick J. Roche and Brian Barton (1992)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBritons: Forging the Nation 1701–1837\u003c\/i\u003e, by Linda Colley; \u003ci\u003eMyths of the English\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Roy Porter (1993)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarold Laski: A Life on the Left\u003c\/i\u003e, by Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman MP; \u003ci\u003eHarold Laski: A Political Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, by Michael Newman (1993)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitical Thought in Ireland since the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by D. George Boyce et al.; \u003ci\u003eNorthern Ireland: The Choice\u003c\/i\u003e, by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden; \u003ci\u003eDe Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, by Tim Pat Coogan; \u003ci\u003eStraight Left: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, by Paddy Devlin; \u003ci\u003eHeresy: The Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, by Desmond Fennell; \u003ci\u003ePaddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History\u003c\/i\u003e, by R. F. Foster; \u003ci\u003eIreland Today: Anatomy of a Changing State\u003c\/i\u003e, by Gemma Hussey; \u003ci\u003eIn Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, by Fionnuala O Connor; \u003ci\u003eNorthern Ireland: Sharing Authority\u003c\/i\u003e, by Brendan O’Leary et al. (1994)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitizens and Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e, by Tony Wright; \u003ci\u003ePolitics in an Anti-Political Age\u003c\/i\u003e, by Geoff Mulgan (1994)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTownscape with Figures: Farnham—Portrait of an English Town\u003c\/i\u003e, by Richard Hoggart (1995)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumour and History\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Keith Cameron (1995)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 1776–1826\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by James Morton Smith (1995)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Reason and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ernest Gellner; \u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ernest Gellner (1996)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e, by Erich Goldhagen (1997)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond Class Ticket: The Neglect of State Education\u003c\/i\u003e, by P. W. Turner (1997)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe History of Government\u003c\/i\u003e, by S. E. Finer. Volume 1: \u003ci\u003eAncient Monarchies and Empires\u003c\/i\u003e. Volume 2: \u003ci\u003eThe Intermediate Ages\u003c\/i\u003e. Volume 3: \u003ci\u003eEmpires, Monarchies and the Modern State\u003c\/i\u003e (1998)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberty before Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e, by Quentin Skinner (1998)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2000s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntegrity in the Public and Private Domains\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Alan Montefiore and David Vines; \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, by Jeffrey Goldsworthy; \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Nationhood: Sovereignty, Britishness and Conservative Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, by Philip Lynch; \u003ci\u003eOrwell’s Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, by John Newsinger; \u003ci\u003eBritish Social Attitudes, 16th Report: Who Shares New Labour Values?\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Roger Jowell et al. (2000)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAugmenting Democracy: Political Movements and Constitutional Reform during the Rise of Labour, 1900–1924\u003c\/i\u003e, by Andrew Chadwick (2000)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForward to Basics—Back from the Brink: Can Humanity Rescue Itself?\u003c\/i\u003e, by J. M. Ross (2001)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, by John Dunn (2001)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes\u003c\/i\u003e, by Jonathan Rose (2002)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Red Flag and the Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881–1924\u003c\/i\u003e, by Paul Ward (2002)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdentity of England\u003c\/i\u003e, by Roger Colls; \u003ci\u003ePatriots: National Identity in Britain 1940–2000\u003c\/i\u003e, by Richard Weight (2003)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e, by Tariq Modood (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e, by Geoff Dench et al. (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eComrades: A World History of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e, by Robert Service (2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scots and the Union\u003c\/i\u003e, by Christopher Whatley; \u003ci\u003eThe Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707\u003c\/i\u003e, by Michael Fry; \u003ci\u003eThe Union of 1707: Why and How\u003c\/i\u003e, by Paul Henderson Scot (2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Commentaries, 1974 to 1981\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUntitled (1974)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Talk of Coalition’ (1974)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Opening the Crossman Diaries’ and ‘The Crisis’ (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Pandora’s Box, Sovereignty and the Referendum’ (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Joint Editorship’ and ‘The Referendum That Was’ (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘“The Good Causes”, a New Series’ and ‘Lament for India’ (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Freedom and the Labour Party’ (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘House and Nation’ and ‘Northern Ireland’ (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The Death Wish’ (1977)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Jubilee?’, ‘Penguin’, ‘Porn’ and ‘Parliament’ (1977)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The Education Service’ (1977)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Political Education, Elections and the Media’ (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Political Reviews’ (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Euro-Communism’ (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Ten Years in Ulster’ (1979)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Political Broadcasting’ (1979)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The Two Islands’ (1980)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘William Robson, 1895–1980’ (1980)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Perspectives on Unemployment’ (1981)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: \u003ci\u003eSeventy Serious Years\u003c\/i\u003e, 1998\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408395477335,"sku":"9781444351330","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444351330.jpg?v=1730502746","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/defending-politics-9781444351330","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}