Crossing Borders Political Essays [Hardcover]

Bernard Crick's mastery of the political essay is matched by few, if any, modern political writers. This new collection demonstrates the wide range of his writing with characteristically bold, argumentative and witty pieces on British identity, on the Northern Irish peace process, on New Labour, on Shaw, Berlin, Laski and Arendt, and on the present state of political writing. It will enlighten, provoke and amuse readers keen to engage with political ideas and arguments current at the turn of the millennium.

Preface
1. The Sense of Identity of the Indigenous British
2. For My Fellow English
3. On Scottish Nationalism
4. The Politics of British History
5. Why the Northern Ireland Peace Process Must Take So Long
6. The Legacy of John Smith
7. Still Missing: A Public Philosophy for New Labour
8. The Decline of the Political Book
9. Political Reviewing
10. Sassoon'sOne Hundred Years of Socialism
11. Goldhagen's Willing Executioners
12. Hannaford on Race
13. Multiculturalism
14. Talking to the Loyalist Paras
15. Rethinking Unionism
16. Gellner and Postmodernism
17. Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Time
18. On Isaiah Berlin
19. The Legacy of Laski
20. Shaw as Political Thinker, or the Dogs That Did Not Bark
21. The Complete Orwell
Index

Sir Bernard Crickwas Emeritus Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College London and Honorary Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK.