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Julie Burchill , Chas Newkey-Burden
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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Virgin Books; 1st Edition, First impression. edition (7 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905264224
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905264223
  • Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 2 x 21.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 473,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and captivating read, 27 Dec 2009
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G. Wigmore "the krump" (fiji) - See all my reviews
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The best argument to read this book comes from the One Star Reviews here - what a babble! No arguments, just smear and hate, which is too prevalent in debate today. Why not read it and make your own mind up.

Is it true? That's the question you need to answer.
Well done Julie. My copy has been passed around a fair bit now and always gets people talking and ASKING QUESTIONS!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Its not about you, 11 Feb 2011
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Mr. N. Foale "electronic word" (Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy (Hardcover)
The title of this book spells out its thesis: that the chattering classes are a bunch of self-regarding thought police. It argues against the herd-mentality that pronounces judgment against lazy targets rather than making the effort to think out personally held and defensible opinions. It lambastes Saddam appeasers, reactionary so-called alternative comedians, anti-Americanism. The Catholic Church also gets a well-deserved kicking.

I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't say I relish this book. It fizzes along and skewers a gamut of modern hypocrisies, then grills them on the flames of its author's venom. Pay attention and you'll periodically cleanse your palate too by spooning choice morsels from the fruit salad of said author's own inconsistencies.

In conclusion: a call to arms for the thinking classes.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Do you like being challenged?, 26 Jun 2009
This review is from: Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy (Hardcover)
There are far too many books that preach to the converted. But the appeal of Not In My Name is that it doesn't take sides. Well, of course it does - nearly every page is crammed with superstrength opinions. But it certainly doesn't play it safe. Everyone who reads this book - left, right, gay, straight - will find their own particular hypocrisies glaring back at them. Like a good rant with the best kind of drinking buddies, while I certainly disagreed with Burchill and Burden more than a few times, I finished the book grateful for having my (green, lefty, white, middle class, straight) assumptions about the world challenged, and the evening - to stretch the metaphor - definitely finished with high fives outside the kebab shop. On some issues I came away with my own convictions stronger in defiance of theirs, but on others they convinced me the world isn't quite the way I might lazily have assumed it was.
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