{"product_id":"heroic-failure-by-fintan-otoole","title":"Heroic Failure by Fintan O’Toole","description":"\u003cspan\u003e'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative' David Miliband.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Hugely entertaining and engrossing' Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the English that I've read for ages' Billy Bragg. 'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePitilessly brilliant' Jonathan Coe. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; how the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact has come to define the style of an entire political elite; how a country that once had colonies is redefining itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation; the strange gastronomic and political significance of prawn-flavoured crisps, and their role in the rise of Boris Johnson; the dreams of revolutionary deregulation and privatisation that drive Arron Banks, Nigel Farrage and Jacob Rees-Mogg; and the silent rise of English nationalism, the force that dare not speak its name. He 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: the Charge of the Light Brigade, or Franklin lost in the Arctic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow failure is no longer heroic - it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters, and by those who may suffer the consequences of a hard border in Ireland and the breakdown of a fragile peace.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038004105492,"sku":"gso1789766112902","price":10.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/heroic-failure-by-fintan-otoole_1.jpg?v=1789766116","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/heroic-failure-by-fintan-otoole","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}