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- Product code: 21719
- ISBN: 0719565669,
ISBN13: 9780719565663,
448 pages, paperback
Published by John Murray on 2005
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Description of Who Runs This Place |
Who holds power? How do they use it? Are they accountable?: the questions addressed in this unflinching exposé of power in Britain.
These familiar questions are now far more topical and urgent. The peaks of both government and finance have become far more concentrated and isolated; checks and balances have become much weaker; the costs of wrong decisions have often proved disastrous to the public.
Anthony Sampson has spent forty years dissecting the power-structure, with unique access to people at the top, to produce his best-selling Anatomies of Britain. Now in this intensely topical book, he surveys a much more troubled scene with more anger and impatience. He looks at the whole panoply of power, from an embattled Number Ten to the murky intelligence spooks, from corporate boardrooms to banks and pension funds. Everywhere he talks to the people who really know their inside workings.
Who Runs This Place? is written not just for those inside the Westminster Bubble. It is addressed in fresh and vivid terms to those who need to understand the institutions and careers they are choosing, and the bosses who will influence their whole future. And it comes at a time when the British people are clamouring to comprehend the secretive groups that pull the levers, behind the facades. It is essential reading.
- The best books reveal facts which readers can barely believe that they did not know. Who Runs This Place? contains such revelations in abundance' Observer.
- Who Runs This Place? hardback entered Sunday Times bestseller list top 10 within days of publication.
- Author of acclaimed bestsellers about the oil industry, corporations and was chosen be Nelson Mandela to be his authorised biographer.
- Anthony Sampson's first bestseller, The Anatomy of Britain, sold a staggering 200,000 hardback copies in the early 1960s.
- One of the most respected writers on contemporary Britain - columns in the Observer and Daily Mail.
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Reviews'A compelling analysis of power'
- The Times
'An exhilarating air of authority... [thanks to] its author's happy and unusual combination of wisdom and research'
- Mail on Sunday
'A superb diagnosis... enormously readable, containing a wealth of entertaining apercus and digressions... [and] a wit that is as sharp as his scalpel'
- New Statesman
'A coherent critique about the nature of political power in British society'
- The Scotsman
'Sampson sees power clearly and calmly, as Trollope or Galsworthy did; and it is not a pretty sight...He comes shrewdly at Mr Blair from an unprotected flank'
- Daily Telegraph
'His lucid prose dissects the new centres of power … A bracing read'
- JG Ballard, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
'Brilliantly written and deeply sobering'
- JG Ballard
'The leap this books asks us to make – the comparison between the Britain of 1962 and that of 2004 – is useful and hugely instructive.'
- Guardian
'Sampson's overview of today's corrupt, nepotistic, celebrity-obsessed Britain makes for fascinating, if depressing, reading'
- Daily Telegraph
| About Anthony Sampson |
Anthony Sampson was educated at Westminster and Oxford, and after a spell as a naval officer he went to Johannesburg and edited the black magazine Drum, becoming a friend of young ANC revolutionaries. He then joined the Observer, but left to write The Anatomy of Britain and became a full time author, writing best-sellers investigating oil companies, arms dealers and bankers.
He was editorial adviser to the Brandt Commission, director of the New Statesman, trustee of the Guardian and chairman of the Society of Authors, and he wrote the authorised biography of Nelson Mandela.
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