- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition, First Impression edition (6 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224080776
- ISBN-13: 978-0224080774
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 13.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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`beautifully written, and the personal reminiscences were illuminating and even moving'
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"vivid, emotively charged account"
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41 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
September 11th was a defining moment for many people, reinforcing or shattering their long held beliefs and this is the premise for Anthony's important book. Autobiographical in nature, the author brilliantly exposes the hypocrisy and morally questionable ideas professed by those who see themselves as 'liberal' and tolerant in nature. Liberals have lost their way. Reason and freedom of speech are in danger and the biggest threat is not from the religious fundamentalists but us, who seem to have painted ourselves into a corner with a self contempt for our own secular and democratic values.
Anthony never preaches and every page makes you wish you had a photographic memory so you could argue this clearly at that next dinner party debate. If after reading a chapter, you don't sit and think about what you believe in, best check your pulse.
Anthony never preaches and every page makes you wish you had a photographic memory so you could argue this clearly at that next dinner party debate. If after reading a chapter, you don't sit and think about what you believe in, best check your pulse.
52 of 59 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Don't imagine that this book is a political rant ticking off all the subjects of the day. Andrew Anthony has taken the hard road - exposing how his mind was changed about the hot topics of the modern-day "liberal left": multi-culturalism, racism, terrorism, America .... It's the kind of book that will have you saying - "I thought that too, but was afraid to admit it" - but it will also have you laughing at its good humour, and surprisingly touched by its sensitivities, especially about Anthony's working class upbringing. I don't read much of what you'd call "politics" - but I totally recommend this book if you are interested in the way we live today.
34 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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I have read numerous critiques of today's left (Marxist liberals) mainly by authors - with the exception of e.g. David Horowitz and Christopher Hitchens - organically detached from their subject. Be this as it may, I agreed with one writer who described today's left not so much as a political viewpoint but rather a pathology, a distorted frame of mind fuelled and characterised by hatred, absurdity and anger. Andrew Anthony's constructive and thoughtful critique re-affirms this viewpoint. His politics stem from an internalised, experiential liberal conviction that has its roots in pre - 1989 international solidarity, a standard tenet that is lost on much of today's left. In the light of the left's - particularly the SWP and its ilk - descent into blind hatred of anything Western since 9/11, Mr Anthony has held up his liberal views for personal scrutiny. Set starkly against the present dominant strand of liberalism's mystifying solidarity with terrorists, dictatorships and total disregard for the socially obvious, he has exposed and disossiated from the politically disfigured beast it has become. I have just completed a BSc in Social Science that was tiresomely infested with elements of this disfigurement at a sociological level. Mr Anthony's excellent book would have been a refreshing antedote to the know-nothing postmodernist drivel I was obliged to read. In other words, The Fallout should be standard reading in any social science department worth its salt. Sadly, the hatred and disfigurement referred to above also blinds judgement. Therefore the likelihood of an even minded course author ever placing this book on a university library bookshelf is nil. This said, it's a book that should not sit idle on a bookshelf anyway nor should it be at the mercy of a univerisity lecturer's prejudice. Once read it should be passed on to other open minded, reflective liberals as a means to spreading much needed enlightenment in these days of postmodernist darkness.
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GUILTY LIBERAL PARTLY LOOSES INNOCENCE
The most glaring ommision Mr. Anthony makes is not admitting that the liberals sold the British, white working class down the river in their attempt to create their Utopia. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dude, Where's my England?
Well worth a read
... especially if you're a "dried-out" former soggy liberal. Superbly written and often engrossing, it covers a lot in its 300 pages. Recommended.
Published 14 months ago by oldhasbeen
A Wonderful Book
I spend a lot of my time reading politics books similar to this one, and had signalled it out a long time ago as the type of book I would like to read. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Chris
The End of Innocence
Andrew Anthony has written a critique of liberal society by seeking to defend it against the spurious manifestation which lays claim to be the liberal tradition. Read more
Published on 12 May 2010 by Neutral
A breath of fresh air, at last,
This is a very good book.
The author provides a very welcome breath of fresh air in what has increasingly become a climate of fetid and stale 'liberal left' woolly... Read more
The author provides a very welcome breath of fresh air in what has increasingly become a climate of fetid and stale 'liberal left' woolly... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by J. P. Ryder
Important and honest but doesn't confront an important issue.
Anthony's book is brutally honest about the liberal-left's tendency to ignore inconvenient truths in order to preserve their own emotionally-satisfying worldview. Read more
Published on 3 April 2009 by Tayles
Common sense is back in fashion...
In this book, part autobiography, part polemic, Andrew Anthony examines how it is that the left finds itself allied with forces of oppression and against democracy. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2008 by J. DARBY
Good but not an easy read
An insiders insight into the thinking of left wing intellectuals and how they try to distort reality to fit their view of the world rather than face facts and deal with life as it... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2008 by PC
Another step in the correct direction
As another liberal who has been appalled by attitudes on the Left and among self-proclaimed 'liberals', I welcome this robust and well written study. Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2008 by amantedofado
Every word and suggestion of subject I am in utter agreement and have...
I'll be brief... I read an article in The Observer and it was fantastic, cutting through the fog of my liberal and shepherded politics. So ordered the book... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2008 by Mr. T. F. Morgan
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