Adrian Wooldridge Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan ZweigAdrian WooldridgeFascinated to read, in Stefan Zweig's "The World of Yesterday", that the mad inflation that followed the Great War in Austria coincided with an explosion in the use of exclamation marks!!!!
Paperback, 2013
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry KissingerAdrian WooldridgeLeadership is most vital during a period of transition from one order to another--like, right now. Yet around the world, great leadership has been lacking. @adwooldridge thinks Henry Kissinger has the answers https://t.co/IXVrZX5pOp via @opinion
Paperback, 2024
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years
Ian Duncan SmithAdrian WooldridgeBen Wallace is a warmed-up version of Ian Duncan Smith, the quite man who led the party to its lowest point during the Tony Blair era. https://t.co/yDSRwOr1E2 via @opinion
Paperback, 2005
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation
Tim BaleAdrian WooldridgeIt may only be April, but Tim Bale’s The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation is surely destined to win the prize as the most depressing politicl book of the year, https://t.co/GiFTFmp6DX via @opinion
Hardcover, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
Isaiah BerlinAdrian WooldridgeLord Acton identified a hundred definitions of liberty--not quite as catchy as Isaiah Berlin's two concepts of liberty
Paperback, 2002
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
T. S. EliotAdrian Wooldridgeconsultants are like Macavity the mystery cat in T.S. Eliot’s poem — “when a crime’s discovered, then Macavity’s not there", https://t.co/OPWtTjNVxl via @opinion
Paperback, 2016
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
Paul JohnsonAdrian WooldridgeThe British have a long-established habit of underestimating the importance of conservative intellectuals: see the contrasting treatment of Paul Johnson in the US and the UK https://t.co/jKuHMA926w
Paperback, 2007
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Condoleezza RiceAdrian WooldridgeFrom a 2018 HBR article by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart: 'at Disney the shared understanding is that “nothing hurts the mouse.” Disney essentially sets the political risk appetite close to zero.'
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F Buckley Jr. Omnibus
William F. BuckleyAdrian WooldridgeThe new geoeconomics confronts neoliberals with a dilemma: Do they imitate William F. Buckley and “stand athwart history, yelling Stop,” or do they make strategic compromises with the new fashions in order to reduce the chances of disaster?https://t.co/VihYZmxFmM via @opinion
Paperback, 2012
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Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
Tim BaleAdrian WooldridgeIt may only be April, but Tim Bale’s The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation is surely destined to win the prize as the most depressing politicl book of the year, https://t.co/GiFTFmp6DX via @opinion
Paperback, 2016
$38.95$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book