How To Be A Liberal : The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for its Life by Ian Dunt
£25.00
Hardback/Paperback
Spetember 2020/September 2021
Canbury Press
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How To Be A Liberal : The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for its Life
by Ian Dunt (Author)
Format:Hardback 496 pages
Publisher:Canbury Press
Imprint:Canbury Press
ISBN:9781912454419
Published:17 Sep 2020
Classifications:Philosophy, History of ideas, Politics & government
Readership:General (US: Trade)
Weight:796g
Dimensions:162 x 240 x 44 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
For sale in: All countries
Description
'A tour de force.' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Clear-eyed and hard-headed. His defence of liberalism is political writing at its most urgent and engaging.' - NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST'Dunt's gift for making complicated issues comprehensible is second to none. Courageous.' - JAMES O'BRIEN, LBCThe authoritarian right is taking control.
From Viktor Orban in Hungary, to Brexit in Britain, to Donald Trump in America, nationalists have launched an all-out assault on liberal values. In this groundbreaking new book, political journalist Ian Dunt tells the story of liberalism, from its birth in the fight against absolute monarchy to the modern-day resistance against the new populism. In a soaring narrative that stretches from the battlefields of the English Civil War to the 2008 financial crash and beyond, this vivid, page-turning book explains the political ideas which underpin the modern world.
But it is also something much more than that - it is a rallying cry for those who still believe in freedom and reason.