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March of the Moderates
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics
March of the Moderates
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics
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Description
Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way' by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and ultimately how they lost it. Using newly unearthed archives and interviews with key players, he investigates the relationship between the administrations and sheds new light on big events such as the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the handover to George W. Bush, and the controversial Iraq War.
Table of Contents
2. Acceptable in the Eighties
3. Harbingers of the Revolution
4. Office and Opposition
5. New Democrats, New America
6. Learning from the Best
7. Blair and Brown's Britain
8. The Third Way International
9. Intervention and Iraq
Product details
Published | Sep 05 2019 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9781786736222 |
Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
Illustrations | 17 bw illus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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March of the Moderates is grounded in a detailed analysis of the New Labour/New Democrats' legacy. It sheds new light on the relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, and unearths unpublished information on figures such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Neil Kinnock. As such it provides a valuable record of a slice of history.
Cambridge Independent
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Carr's story makes engaging history.
The Herald
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Engaging … 7/10.
The Irish Times
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A convincing case is made for progressive pragmatism, as the academic Richard Carr traces how New Labour and the US Democratic Party found their way out of such political wilderness.
The i
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A vivid, accessible, detailed account of a key moment in the Left ... Full of illuminating detail and revealing vignette, allowed by the author's huge range of interviews, correspondence and archival research. As the Left again struggles in the wilderness, it should be required reading for Democrats and Labour members seeking a leader and a programme.
Journal of Contemporary History
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An engaging history.
Western Daily Press

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