Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Social democracy: Is there any hope left? 
 HELEN THOMPSON Making Capitalism Fit for Society , by Colin Crouch. And once again: Social democracy, what is to be done? 
 Michele Di Donato Progressive Politics after the Crash. Governing from the Left , edited by Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan. The surge of ‘post‐ism’: no more comprehensive solutions? 
 Derek Hook Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement. Interpretation and Action , by Uri Hadar. A voice from Wales: Unionism, Scotland and the case for federalism 
 Jonathan Bradbury The Reformed Union, The UK as a Federation , by David Melding. Democracies don't bluff 
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Confidence Trap. A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present , by David Runciman. The revolutionary Pankhurst 
 June Hannam Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire , by Katherine Connelly. Orwell, the patriotic rebel 
 Lindsay Duguid George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls. Getting on and getting old 
 Brian Groombridge Out of Time. The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing , by Lynne Segal. Alan Johnson: the genuine (working‐class) article? 
 D. J. Taylor This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood , by Alan Johnson.