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Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2012.02266.x
Subject(s) - hero , democracy , casual , politics , cruelty , sociology , pride , art history , media studies , law , religious studies , art , political science , philosophy , literature
Books reviewed in this issue. The Casual Cruelty of the Tabloids
JOHN LLOYD Journalism for Democracy , by Geraldine Muhlmann, translated by Jean Birrell. ‘Who now remembers the Circassians?’
Jad Adams ‘Let Our Fame Be Great’: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus , by Oliver Bullough. A meaty slab of Supermac
Peter Catterall Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan , by D. R. Thorpe. Hamas: good works in Gaza
Victoria Brittain Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector , by Sara Roy. The minister as a hero of our time
Ben Yong Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities , by Patrick Weller and Anne Tiernan. The incoherence of market freedom
Geoff Kennedy The Invention of Market Freedom , by Eric MacGilvray. Chav‐hate and the ‘children of pride’
Richard Mullender Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class , by Owen Jones. The slippery world of democracy
Richard Bourke Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth‐century Europe , by Jan Werner‐Müller.