Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but here he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood; why Trollope is the politician's novelist of choice; that Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripper; and, how an Admiral's speech in parliament helped win WWII. Where do politicians come from? How do they get elected? What do they do all day? And why do they seek power? All these questions and many more are addressed in Paxman's thrilling dissection of that strange and elusive breed - the political animal.
- ISBN10 0141885750
- ISBN13 9780141885759
- Publish Date 8 November 2002 (first published 21 October 2002)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 27 June 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format eBook
- Language English