Author:Jeremy Paxman
In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?
Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like:
Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted?
What is behind the English obsession with games?
How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and to food?
Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy?
Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypyes, language and much, much more, The English brims over with stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.
'Intelligent, well-written, informative and funny...A book to chew on, dip into, quote from and exploit in arguments' Andrew Marr, Observer
'Bursting with good things' Daily Telegraph
Jeremy Paxman is a journalist, best known for his work presenting Newsnight and University Challenge. His books include Empire, On Royalty, The English and The Political Animal. He lives in Oxfordshire.
Intelligent, well-written, informative and funny…A book to chew on, dip into, quote from and exploit in arguments
—— Andrew Marr , ObserverBursting with good things
—— Daily Telegraph'Brilliant and thorough reporting . . . the most thorough book on the subject'
—— Thomas Sancton, author of Death of a PrincessHighly accomplished ... there is much here to entertain and inform
Completely fascinating - written by the man who really knows
—— Richard and JudyThe writer who got closest to the human truth about our long-serving senior royals
—— The TimesThis immense book is part masterpiece, part sheer exhaustion. The masterpiece part lies chiefly in its breathtaking invention
—— Jan Morris , The TimesEverywhere he goes, Mak is quietly ruthless in unmasking the acts of forgetting, selective amnesia, myth-making and historical obfuscation that persist...Mak is a truly cosmopolitan chronicler of shame and self-deceptions
—— David Goldblatt , IndependentHis genius as a historian is his instinct for human stories... At moments in this monumental work... Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had
—— Simon Kuper , Financial TimesHow eloquently Mak rails against the alliance of consumerism and bureaucracy! ... He has a great eye for telling detail... Only a powerful, humane and serious mind could give coherence to mass detail which, however arresting piece by piece, would otherwise soon become wearying... as much a journey around Geert Mak's head as it is a journey around Europe
—— GuardianFascinating
—— David V Barrett , Independent
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