Dimensions
129 x 198 x 20mm
A Clear Case of Communications Gone Wrong.
"I recognise that there are many who regard me as the first British spin doctor and I know, only too well, how the Labour Party has sought - and continues to seek - to excuse its spin excesses by citing my alleged behaviour as Margaret Thatcher's chief press secretary. It is, of course, all bunkum and balderdash."
We had never heard of spin doctors before 1990, but they quickly came to dominate and discredit the British political scene. No one is better qualified to dissect this curse of modern politics than Bernard Ingham who, from his experience of over twenty-four years as a government press officer, gives an incisive insider's view of government-media relations from their birth to the Blair Government's obsession with hyperactive presentation.
Timely and wonderfully amusing, with contributions from politicians, civil servants and journalists, it is a tale which is at once alarming and reassuring.
