A polemical history of the British ruling class and how they ended up owning our nation
CHRIS BRYANT is a British Labour Party Politician who has been
Member of Parliament since 2001. He was Minister for Europe in the
last Labour Government and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture,
Media and Sport and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons in the
Shadow Cabinet.
Before entering parliament Chris was a priest in the Church of
England. His previous books include biographies of Sir Stafford
Cripps and Glenda Jackson as well as, most recently, his two-volume
Parliament- a Biography.
You can't deal with today's injustices without knowing how we got
here in the first place. If this parade of arrogant, snobbish and
greedy toffs doesn't get you to demand change, nothing will. This
is fascinating, authoritative and radical history at its best. It
lays bare the politics of jealousy and the sense of entitlement
that has meant so few have owned so much and lorded it over so many
for so long. The duke of Westminster won't want you to read it,
which is why you should.
*Owen Jones*
A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which
scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the
nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing
eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey.
*Mary Beard*
A riveting, insightful, gripping and horrifying account of how the
UK aristocracy gained and maintained power right up to today.
*Charlie Falconer*
Forget celebrity infidelity and drug abuse. Here is one of our
greatest scandals – our class-ridden society. That's what should be
exercising the Daily Mail.
*Helena Kennedy*
Entitled is an energetic and engaging response to Whig historians
in the tradition of Marxist historians. It is annoying and readable
in equal measure.
*Jacob Rees-Mogg*
Chris Bryant gives us a lively reminder of why we should "put not
our trust in Princes" - or other landed knaves whose main
achievement was to be born
*Neil Kinnock*
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