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Blair has a story for Indians
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
| It is by no means a confessional memoir but a brave attempt, with only patchy success, at self-justification |
A JOURNEY: Tony Blair;Pub. by Hutchinson, 20, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SWIV 2SA. œ 25
Among the many pleasures of reading an autobiography, three ought to be mentioned. It is a good way to learn history. A biography may help you rediscover someone you thought you knew well enough. Of course, it often satiates that infinite hunger within all of us for “dirt”. Tony Blair's A Journey is a mixed bag. The 700-page tome contains a lot of contemporary history. Blair ruled Britain at an extraordinary point when the Soviet Union was no more and the United States' decline was still invisible to the naked eye and the shift in the locus of power in world politics was yet to gain traction.
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