{"product_id":"heroic-failure","title":"Heroic Failure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIMES\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact came to define the style of an entire political elite; a country that once had colonies redefined itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFintan O'Toole 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. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new afterword lays out the essential reforms that are urgently needed if England is to have a truly democratic future and stable relations with its nearest neighbours. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53987868148050,"sku":"9781789540994","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_5ac22a03-a07e-439c-b820-13235aeb4b02.jpg?v=1783925281","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/heroic-failure","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}