Bøger af Michael Kenny

How have decision-makers in Westminster and beyond fanned the flames of national division? Can this disunited kingdom come together once again?

How have decision-makers in Westminster and beyond fanned the flames of national division? Can this disunited kingdom come together once again?

All Jonathan Kent wanted from life was to escape his humble origins and live life on his own terms. For this ambitious young man, becoming a superstar trial lawyer would be his pathway to success. Emotionally bruised from a jilted love in college, he pursued his goal with singular focus, excelling in law school, clerking for a federal judge, and landing a job in "Big Law" at an elite Washington, DC firm. Mentored by a brilliant, charismatic alcoholic with an acute sense of fairness and economic and racial justice, Jonathan became a mesmerizing trial lawyer. For most of his career, he epitomized the amoral zeitgeist of Big Law success, but he was changing. Now, poised to try the biggest case of the twenty-first century, Jonathan is forced to reconnect with his past and, ultimately, choose between selfless love and a self-indulgent career.

In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. This book documents and analyzes the debates of the New Left, showing how their preoccupations prefigure many contemporary concerns.