Reaching for Utopia Blair Brexit and Our Age of Upheaval

An essential book for anyone wishing to understand the turbulent new times in which we live.

Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade - from the fall of Blair to the rise of Corbyn and Brexit. He has met and interviewed all the major political players shaping and changing the way we live today.

Informationen zum Autor Jason Cowley is an English journalist, magazine editor and writer. After working at the New Statesman, he became the editor of Granta in September 2007, while also remaining a writer on The Observer. He returned to the New Statesman as its editor in September 2008. Klappentext The often-credited revitalising force at the "New Statesman" Jason Cowley brings together his most insightful work on the shifting political scene of the past decade, reflecting on such figures as Blair, Corbyn, the Miliband brothers and Alex Salmond. Also includes essays on the political implications of the novels of Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Kazuo Ishiguro and other zeitgeist-inclined fiction writers. Zusammenfassung Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade from the fall of Blair to the rise of Corbyn and Brexit. He has met and interviewed all the major political players shaping and changing the way we live today.

Klappentext

The often-credited revitalising force at the "New Statesman" Jason Cowley brings together his most insightful work on the shifting political scene of the past decade, reflecting on such figures as Blair, Corbyn, the Miliband brothers and Alex Salmond. Also includes essays on the political implications of the novels of Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Kazuo Ishiguro and other zeitgeist-inclined fiction writers.

Zusammenfassung
Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade from the fall of Blair to the rise of Corbyn and Brexit. He has met and interviewed all the major political players shaping and changing the way we live today.