June 2016. The EU referendum campaign is in full swing. The Tory elite jostles for the leadership. It's a moment which Julius Caesar would have understood. The possibility of power is in the air. While Boris Johnson and Michael Gove manoeuvred, one senior figure kept quiet. This was Theresa May, who would become the country's second female prime minister. But what happens to the electorate when a new person assumes power? And what role does chance play in politics? In this wide-ranging book, Christopher Jackson continues where he left off in his bestselling book on Roger Federer, attacking the complexity of modern life with a commitment to what can be learned from history, poetry and philosophy. After you've read this landmark study, you'll not only know more about the most powerful person in Britain you'll also be reminded that writing about politics can be literature.
June 2016. The EU referendum campaign is in full swing. The Tory elite jostles for the leadership. It's a moment which Julius Caesar would have understood. The possibility of power is in the air. While Boris Johnson and Michael Gove manoeuvred, one senior figure kept quiet. This was Theresa May, who would become the country's second female prime minister. But what happens to the electorate when a new person assumes power? And what role does chance play in politics? In this wide-ranging book, Christopher Jackson continues where he left off in his bestselling book on Roger Federer, attacking the complexity of modern life with a commitment to what can be learned from history, poetry and philosophy. After you've read this landmark study, you'll not only know more about the most powerful person in Britain you'll also be reminded that writing about politics can be literature.
Christopher Jackson was educated at Charterhouse School, the University of Nottingham, and the College of Law. Qualifying first as a solicitor, he subsequently worked for many years as a journalist with work appearing in The Times, Country Life, The New Statesman, Mail on Sunday, City AM and numerous trade publications. His books include PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: HEALER-IN-CHIEF (Eyewear Publishing, 2021), THE FRAGILE DEMOCRACY (Eyewear Publishing, 2016), ROGER FEDERER (Eyewear Publishing, 2017), THERESA MAY (Eyewear Publishing, 2018) and several poetry collections. He appears regularly on television and radio outlets including Sky, Bloomberg, BBC Radio 4, and LBC discussing politics and literature.
Christopher Jackson has written a sympathetic book about the first woman who took on the prime ministership in unlikely circumstances. There have been many books on the subject, and it is brave of Jackson to seek to empathize with a figure assailed from all sides - but that is what Jackson has done here. We are at the point in our history where we need to look past Brexit towards the wider meaning of our times - and this book manages to do precisely that.GINA MILLER / Christopher Jackson is a thoughtful writer, full of insight and humanity. His evident love of history and literature takes us behind the complexity and distortions of the current political crisis to reveal the grander political drama unfolding around us.SIR ANTHONY SELDON
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