num_pages: 228
description: In this volume, reforming parliamentarian Leo Abse presents an analysis of Tony Blair. Originally published in 1996, the author has revised the book to scrutinize Blair's premiership years. scholarship to consider the forces and influences that have driven Blair. He exmaines the house of secrets in which Blair was reared, where the promiscuous grandmother forever cast a shadow, where the legitimate stricken father - authoritative, ambitious and politically unstable - dominated the household, and where death unfairly invaded the family domain. a loner, an estranged man who sought to resolve his private dilemmas in rock music and religion and then, belatedly, in politics.
language: English
title: Man Behind the Smile: Tony Blair and the Politics of Perversion
titlecomplete: Man Behind the Smile: Tony Blair and the Politics of Perversion
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Robson Book Ltd