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Chargement... Parliament: The Biography (Volume 1: Ancestral Voices) (2014)par Chris Bryant
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Densely packed with detail and impeccably well-researched, the book nonetheless founders on the border between a 3 and 4 star rating because the overwhelming lists of names make large sections of it, particularly in the latter half, at times both tedious to wade through and difficult to parse. In the end, I went with 4 because I did get a lot out of reading it, but be warned ( ) Westminster; the mother of all parliaments. If only we could return to that halcyon time when our leaders were honourable men (and yes, they were all men!) then, everything would be well. Check it out. Parliament was founded upon corruption, progressed through the mire and ended up where it now finds itself - an unrepresentative smear of the most questionable in society. Even when something good happens, the stench of accepted procedures and 'standards' draws the place back to the sewer. Nobody could accuse Chris Bryant of being a radical and even his style of writing is light and nonjudgemental. It is hard, however, to resist quoting the line, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Having reached the half way stage in this two part walk through the corridors of power, it is hard to think other than the whole system needs to be washed away and a fairer, more honourable one put in its place. I shall now read volume two: let's see if that causes a change of heart... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"This first of two volumes takes us on a 500-year journey from Parliament's earliest days in the thirteenth century through the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses and the upheavals of the Civil Wars, and up to 1801, when Parliament--and the United Kingdom, embracing Scotland and Ireland--emerged in a modern form. Chris Bryant tells this epic tale through the lives of the myriad MPs, lords and bishops who passed through Parliament. It is the vivid, colourful biography of a cast of characters whose passions and obsessions, strengths and weaknesses laid the foundations of modern democracy."--Book jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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