David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: […] standard biography of the man, demolishing the myths with which he surrounded himself. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1992) p. 268. […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

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[PDF file]: […] really address this at all. Unfortunately, his Code of Conduct will change nothing. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. In 2015 Browne, together with a number of McKinsey consultants, published a book, Connect: How Companies Succeed […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

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[PDF file]: […] power’. (p. 335) Despite Jones’ tendency towards hero-worship, and an uncritical attitude towards the way Britain exercised power, this biography is essential reading for anyone interested in this clandestine world. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. 7

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[…] really address this at all. Unfortunately, his Code of Conduct will change nothing. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. In 2015 Browne, together with a number of McKinsey consultants, published a book, Connect: How Companies Succeed […]

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[…] between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl. The cases were recorded in Havana between May 2016 and September 2017, when the Trump administration radically reduced the State Department’s presence on the Caribbean island and the CIA withdrew all of its personnel from the reopened U.S. Embassy there. But […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

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[PDF file]: […] were familiar with it – relate it to modern American society, let alone see how it could apply to a US president? In an age when Donald Trump can be called presidential, such social attitudes seem as obsolete and irrelevant as duelling and chivalry. Denton sketches out FDR’s character with concision and clarity, and […]

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] as a delusional fantasist who sees himself as a Great Man walking with Destiny and shaping History. The point has been made by some that, while Donald Trump is genuinely stupid and unbelievably ignorant, Johnson is only pretending. This book suggests that he has been maintaining the pose of the posh buffoon for so […]

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