Learning About Politics in Time and Space A Memoir [Paperback]

Using skills developed since teaching himself to type at the age of eight, Rose describes his 20 years of working in newspapers, radio and television before publishing his first book.Richard Roses memoir vividly describes first-hand experience of the transformation of politics in Europe and the United States since 1940. He has been teargassed in Chicago, seen walls go up in Belfast and come down in Berlin. The authors education in the streets and in the corridors of political power give a unique perspective on discrimination by race, religion and class, and the world in which political scientists live today. Rose has distilled a 500-page book into a three-minute Oval Office explanation to George W Bush of why Americas intervention in Iraq was a disaster. He gives practical advice to political scientists about how to make words into concepts and communicate what you know to others inside and outside universities. The books photographs show memorials to the dead, and living evidence of how election forecasting has changed since Delphi. Using skills developed since teaching himself to type at the age of eight, Rose describes his 20 years of working in newspapers, radio and television before publishing his first book. Since then he has combined social science methodology, along with the methodologies of comparative drama and the applied arts, to write many innovative books. This is the latest.ContentsList of Photographs viiiIntroductionReflections From Experience 9A Memoir 11; The Perspective of the Author 14SOCIALIZATION OF A SOCIAL SCIENTISTChapter 1: The Roots of a Political Scientist 21Growing Up in a Border City 22; Learning in Spite of School 26; Learningfrom the Library and from the Streets 28Chapter 2: Discovering Learning 33An Old-Fashioned University Education 34; Exploring Europe 38; MyEducation as a Reporter 40Chapter 3: The Education of Amateur Political Scientists 47Before the Transformation 48; Manchester Made Me 57; Committed PoliticalSociologists 60l“p