Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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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. […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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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
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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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 […]