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    Title
    Blair Unbound
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Anthony Seldon, With Peter Snowdon
    Physical properties
    Format: Other book format
    Number of pages: 368
    Width: 153 mm
    Height: 234 mm
    Thickness: 51 mm
    Weight: 922 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781847370785
    ISBN 10: 1847370780
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: HIS015000
    BISAC category code: POL040020
    BICMainSubject: JPHL
    Dewey: 941.085092
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T4.0
    BIC subject category: BGH
    BISAC category code: POL040000
    BISAC category code: BIO011000
    Dewey: B
    Illustrations note
    illustrations
    Publisher
    Simon & Schuster Ltd
    Imprint name
    Simon & Schuster Ltd
    Publication date
    28 April 2008
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Main description
    Anthony Seldon's first study of Tony Blair, published in 2004, which took his story from birth up to the second term, has now become the conventional wisdom about Blair: a figure whose rise was shaped heavily by powerful individuals and events, and who squandered his early years in office because he had yet to work out what he wanted to do with power, and to stand fully on his own feet.Blair Unbound, written with Peter Snowdon and Daniel Ceilings, takes the story from 2001 until his final day in power on 27 June 2007. It recounts how Blair matures as a political leader, finds his voice and personal agenda at home and abroad, and divests himself of the figures who had helped him rise to power but then held him back. Critical in this transformation is 9/11, which put iron in his soul, and fired him with the vision of becoming a world leader.Blair Unbound is the best-sourced book to be written on a recently departed British Prime Minister. It is based on 2 million transcribed words of interviews with figures at the heart of the courts of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and George W. Bush, and on a wide array of unpublished documents, It is scrupulously fair to all sides in the battles at the heart of government, whose ferocity was unlike anything seen before in British political history.
    Biographical note
    Anthony Seldon is the author of several books including the official biography of John Major and the authorised 'biography' of Number 10 Downing Street. He is also the editor of an ongoing series of essays by the foremost political commentators of the time, the latest of which, THE BLAIR EFFECT, was published in 2001.
    Review quote
    "An outstanding work that strives successfully to explain the man and his administration." " --Booklist"