First Confession: A Sort of Memoir [Audiobook] download free by Chris Patten
- Listen audiobook: First Confession: A Sort of Memoir
- Author: Chris Patten
- Release date: 2018/9/8
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780141983875
- Rating: 7.71 of 10
- Votes: 477
- Review by: India Stowe
- Review rating: 8.73 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/13
- Duration: 3H55M15S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MPEG-4 ALS, MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, AIFF (compression AZW, RAR, TAR.BZ2, IMG, ZIP, Z, TAR.BZ)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 32 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M28S (6.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight'. This is a different sort of memoir. Following his life as a self-confessed 'wet European' from parliament to Hong Kong and beyond, Chris Patten creates a meditation on personal and political identity which, in an age of simplification, shows the complexities of both.'A defence of liberal conservatism ... If old-style centrism is to stage a comeback and reason to supplant stridency and authoritarianism, be it in west or east, the moderates can wave Patten's book on their way to their barricades' Jonathan Fenby, Financial Times'Vivid, very well-written, First Confession joins the highest tier of recent works by British politicians' Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times'Draws on his experience of four controversial institutions - the Tory party, the Vatican, the Chinese government and the BBC - to swell the tiny list of intelligent and cultured memoirs by front-line politicians' Mark Lawson, New Statesman, Books of the Year
- Other categories, genre or collection: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Religion & Politics, Memoirs, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Geopolitics, Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military
- Download servers: MEGA, Uploaded, Microsoft OneDrive, FileRio, Jirafeau, FileServe, BitShare. Compressed in AZW, RAR, TAR.BZ2, IMG, ZIP, Z, TAR.BZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.54 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x19mm
- Weight: 259g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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