Books I Do Own (1)

Given my recent post.... here are some books I do own. I live with a first year politics student who asked if I knew anything about the "postwar consesnus" to which I responded, not only with these boks but including these books. and here they are. in all their glory (i received them back tonight andyes, as the title suggests, I amt he owner of them).

Howard Glennerster Socil Policy Since 1945 (2nd Edition) - this I would highly recommend. I defy anyone to speak with authority on social policy since 1945 without having first read it.

Anthony Giddens Beyond Left and Right (garbage book, IMO)

Steven Fielding The Labour Party (slightly better, if not brilliant)


cruddas interview update forthcoming.

Books I Wish I Owned (1)

During my time reading politics at university, there were several books I kept promising myself I would purchase, but I never quite got around to doing so. They're either really great books, or the kind of thing that any self-respecting leftie should have on their bookshelf, or both. Aside from the one in honour of G.A. Cohen, which I've not read, but which just sounds interesting. Hopefully my new situation (see post below) means I can acquire some of them in the new year, but I thought I'd post about them here, in case anybody reading wanted something longer to thumb through over the Christmas break.


English Question by Robert Hazell (2006)

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time) by Amartya Sen,

Kinnock, The Biography. Martin Westlake, London: Little, Brown and Company 2001. pp. 768.

A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 by Chris Cook

Critical Elections: British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective (Paperback) by Geoffrey Evans (Author), Pippa Norris (Author)

Electoral Systems and Party Systems_A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990 by Arend Lijphart

Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback) by Antonio Gramsci

The Future of Socialism (Paperback) by Anthony Crosland (Author), Gordon Brown (Introduction)
History, Labour, and Freedom (1988) by G.A. Cohen

Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (1995) by G.A. Cohen

The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen (2006); edited by Christine Sypnowich

The Rise Of The Meritocracy in 1958, by Michael Young

There were others, but I can't recall their full titles and authors off the top of my head.