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The Politician's Quotation Book: A Literary Companion
The Politician's Quotation Book A Literary Companion Author:Gyles Brandreth This collection of over 300 quotations about politics and politicians - that much maligned breed - spans several centuries and continents. This anthology, written by a politician, presents a personal account of observations on the art and craft of politics, from Disraeli and Churchill to Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, together with passage... more »s from Pepys, Dickens and Trollope evoking the reality of a politican's life - from the excitement of election night to snoozes in the House of Commons Library. Politics, as Kipling suggested, may be a dog's life but there are it seems compensations to be found in the corridors of power.« less