{"product_id":"boek-heroic-failure","title":"Heroic Failure","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book about the delusions of Brexit, the threat it poses to economic prosperity, peace in Ireland and the tradition of British democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'\u003c\/b\u003e David Miliband. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'\u003c\/b\u003e Roddy Doyle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Best book about the English that I've read for ages'\u003c\/b\u003e Billy Bragg. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ... Pitilessly brilliant'\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Coe. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; how the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact has come to define the style of an entire political elite; how a country that once had colonies is redefining itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation; the strange gastronomic and political significance of prawn-flavoured crisps, and their role in the rise of Boris Johnson; the dreams of revolutionary deregulation and privatisation that drive Arron Banks, Nigel Farrage and Jacob Rees-Mogg; and the silent rise of English nationalism, the force that dare not speak its name. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe also discusses the fatal attraction of heroic failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster: the Charge of the Light Brigade, or Franklin lost in the Arctic. Now failure is no longer heroic – it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters, and by those who may suffer the consequences of a hard border in Ireland and the breakdown of a fragile peace. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boek","offers":[{"title":"Gebruikt","offer_id":52750157381959,"sku":"30M-R7-B5","price":3.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/4172\/9863\/files\/boek-heroic-failure.jpg?v=1766964204","url":"https:\/\/www.reway.nl\/products\/boek-heroic-failure","provider":"Reway","version":"1.0","type":"link"}