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'Passionate, clever, and often very funny' Marina Hyde
'A wonderful meditation on populism, nationalism, politics and truth' Rory Stewart
***Chosen as a 2023 Non-Fiction highlight in the Guardian, New Statesman and Irish Times***
We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one…
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But what differentiates this book most profoundly is that – after his own brush with mortality thanks to a near fatal attack – Behr reminds us that the…
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