- Published: 22 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781407086927
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
Pistols at Dawn
Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown
- Published: 22 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781407086927
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
...cleverly conceived and stylishly executed...
Independent
...well worth staying the course... Campbell's dissection of this last union covers much familiar ground, but he shows just how much a close political relationship can hobble an administration as much as energise it
Independent on Sunday
A good introduction to British politics
Iain Macwhirter, The Herald
A joy to read: meticulously researched, beautifully written and scrupulously fair
Observer
a wonderfully, irresistibly compelling read
Telegraph
Entertaining study
Simon Shaw, Daily Mail
Entertaining... An elegantly written, wise and authoritative volume
David Stenhouse, Scotland on Sunday
He [Campbell] captures the determining role of personality in politics and the book is strong on tactics, strategy and, most of all, skulduggery
Rohan McWilliam, History Today
One of Britain's finest political biographers... a rattling good read
Ian Aitken, Guardian
stylish book
Sunday Times
Stylish look at two centuries of quarrels and catfights
The Sunday Times
The book is a joy to read: meticulously researched, beautifully written and scrupulously fair.
Chris Mullen, Observer
These eight studies are lively, penetrating, intelligent and, like all Campbell's work, exceptionally well written
Philip Ziegler, Spectator
This is a most engaging and rewarding book...stylish, scholarly and notably perceptive
David Brooks, BBC History Magazine
This is a timely book. It comes at a moment when British politics is haunted by the intimate enmity of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and by all its attendant sub-feuds
Richard Vinen, The Sunday Times
While pistols have long since gone out of fashion, the tradition of the political duel, as John Campbell's delightful book suggests, is far from dead...a wonderfully, irresistibly compelling read
Dominic Sandbrook, The Telegraph