This title apes Michael Moore's polemical Fahrenheit 9/11, but this is not a bombastic broadside. Gove - a Tory MP and Times columnist - denies that the war has made Britain a target, arguing that we have not done enough to punish regimes that sponsor terrorism. (THE TIMES)
All I can really urge you to do is buy it. It's a truly marvellous book about the refusal in the West to acknowledge the reality and scale of the Islamist threat to civilisation. It ought to be compulsory reading.... It's so well written that it is impossible to put down. Gove ranges across the history of Islamism, the reality of today's terror, the real role of Israel and the response of Western liberals. It's a book that needed to be written. Buy it here. You won't regret it. (Stephen Pollard, David Blunkett's biographer www.stephenpollard.net - political blog)
a terrific oped in today's Times, excerpted from his forthcoming book, Celsius 7/7 (David Frum, Bush's former speechwriter http://frum.nationalreview.com)
brilliant, essential and terrifying... lucid, unhysterical, informed - the landmark book that, together with Melanie Philips's Londonistan, finally acknowledges the scale of the problem before us... Gove's book has arrived not a moment too soon. (JAMES DELINGPOLE THE MAIL ON SUNDAY)
on Tuesday I went to hear an MP speak at a debate and was surprised by how surprised I was that he managed to be both persuasive and articulate. The MP was Michael Gove and he was arguing that the West's policy of appeasement has provoked yet more fundamentalist terror.... he has just written a book on this subject, Celsius 7/7... it reminded me that it is still possible to feel inferior to politicians." (Nigel Farndale SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
a superb book on the threat of Islamism (MATTHEW D'ANCONA SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
I have never seen the argument for a robust response to the threat spelt out so clearly and succinctly as in Gove's book... Best of all is his analysis of the role that the Israel issue has played in the debate about terrorism and Middle Eastern policy. (THE SPECTATOR)
Michael Gove is one of the rising stars of the British parliamentary Conservative party on account of the exceptional depth and lucidity of his thinking. Almost alone among British politicians, he courageously opposes the ugly anti-Americanism and hatred of Israel which are currently convulsing British society. His new book, Celsius 7/7, is a brilliant analysis of Britain¿s wilful blindness in refusing to grasp the true nature and extent of the Islamist war upon the west
and the resulting culture of appeasement which threatens to undermine Britain¿s special relationship with America. At a time when the hostilities in the Middle East are ratcheting up Britain¿s state of denial to an unprecedented level of irrationality and prejudice, Gove¿s urgent wake-up call could not be more timely or prescient. (MELANIE PHILIPS)
"Attacks on Israel are merely a small part of what global Islamism is about. As Michael Gove points out in Celsius 7/7 - his short but brilliant guide to the global threat we all face - as fascism degraded nationalism and communism betrayed socialism, Islamism is a political creed that perverts Islam." (RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS, historian of The Economist, IRISH INDEPENDENT)
Celsius 7/7 analyses how the West's approach to fundamentalism is destined to lead to further atrocities
Synopsis
Times columnist Michael Gove, is one of Britain's leading writers and thinkers on terrorism and foreign affairs. In his column which appeared in the Times on the morning of 9/11, he prophetically argued that the West's policy of appeasement towards terror was destined to provoke yet greater atrocities. In Celsius 7/7, Gove explores the roots of Islamic rage, the historical factors which culminated in the current terrorist campaign and the Moslem world's troubled accommodation with modernity. He also analyses the intellectual roots and political appeal of Islamism, explains the factors behind Jihadi violence and places the current fundamentalist challenge in context. Combining a broad historical sweep with character sketches of key figures such as Michel Aflaq, Charles de Gaulle, Sayyhid Qutb, Donald Rumsfeld, Abu Musab al_Zarqawi, Henry Kissinger and Osama bin Laden, as well as a detailed survey of Western political failures, Gove's account is a shrewd and detached analysis that provides powerfully convincing recommendations for future action.
About the Author
Michael Gove was first elected as Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath in May 2005. Following the 2010 General Election, he was appointed as Secretary of State for Education. He is a former journalist for The Times.
