-About this book
Boris Johnson is a perpetual paradox for admirers and opponents alike: a loner who cannot bear to be by himself; a man of genuine intellect who still prefers to wing it; a figure of ferocious ambition and great laziness; someone desperate to lead but unwilling to manage and mindless of consequences; the liberal Brexiter; the low-tax, big-state interventionist; and a man determined to be marked in posterity but reluctant to put in the hard yards to ensure that he is remembered kindly.
Based on a wealth of new interviews and research, this is the deepest, most rounded and most comprehensive portrait to date of the man, the mind, the politics, the affairs, the family – of a loner, a lover, a leader.
-Contents
Picture Credits
Prologue: A Family’s Secret
ACT I: ORIGINS
Chapter 1: The Truth
Chapter 2: Effortlessly Superior
Chapter 3: Uncertain Star
Chapter 4: Awakening
Chapter 5: Defying the Critics
Chapter 6: ‘It’s all a mess’
Chapter 7: Downfall and Resurrection
ACT II: ‘THE FIRST TIME HE’D HAD TO WORK IN HIS LIFE’
Chapter 8: The Challenge
Chapter 9: Exposing Vipers
Chapter 10: Birth of ‘Borisism’
Chapter 11: The Messiah Complex
Chapter 12: ‘I’m standing by to fill the gap’
Chapter 13: Playing with Fire
Chapter 14: ‘Jealousies and paranoias’
Chapter 15: ‘Alexander the Great’
Chapter 16: ‘Transparently self-defeating policies’
Chapter 17: ‘A blithering, Bullingdon, Bollinger-drinking buffoon’
Chapter 18: ‘The next PM will be Miliband if you don’t fucking shut up’‘The next PM will be Miliband if you don’t fucking shut up’
Chapter 19: The Legacy
Chapter 20: ‘He’s ruined my life’
Chapter 21: Leadership and Treachery
ACT III: THE CABINET
Chapter 22: ‘We’re being stitched up’
Chapter 23: ‘Boris is Boris’
Chapter 24: ‘God, she’s awful’
Chapter 25: Showdown
ACT IV: TRIUMPH AND TURMOIL
Chapter 26: Total Victory
Chapter 27: Covid I
Chapter 28: Covid II
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Bibliography
-caractéristiques
Date de parution : 15 October 2020
Publisher : Penguin Random House
N .de pages : 592 pages
ASIN : B085H91J9C
ISBN-13 : 978-0753554906
Language : English
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