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...kept a diary, unintentionally casting Campbell as his acerbic Boswell, whose journals reveal their serial encounters with Presidents and Premiers, royals and rock stars, lawmen and faith leaders, press barons and members of the public. That last category, "people outside the Westminster bubble," is the one to which the author appeals, over the heads of a media that both he and Blair have come to regard as irredeemably hostile. This, says Campbell, is the message he hopes his readers will take away with them: "During that period an awful lot happened, and some of it was unexpected, and some...
Even beyond this role arranging what must have been lucrative deals for China's "principal players," there's a deeper reason Kissinger enjoys such support from the leadership: he seems to agree with them on the paramount importance of stability. As the author Robert D. Kaplan has suggested, for Kissinger "the key word is 'revolution,' something that [his] experience as a youth [in Nazi Germany], augmented by scholarship, taught him to fear." Deng Xiaoping cleared Tiananmen Square by force in 1989 in part because of vivid memories of the luan, or chaos, caused by rampaging Red Guards; Nazi Brown Shirts...
...known as a hands-on investigator who would literally picked through wreckage of a downed airliner, or rent a boat to enter Libya to investigate the agents he accused of blowing it up. And in 1996, Bruguiere arranged the arrest and extradition of notorious terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" - author of a number of bombings in Paris in the 1980s - from Sudan, spirited away after he'd been sedated to undergo surgery on a varicose vein on his scrotum...
...million words to a thick tome of 350,000, reveal their serial encounters with Presidents and Premiers, royals and rock stars, lawmen and faith leaders, press barons and members of the public. It's to that last category, "people outside the Westminster bubble," he tells TIME, that the author is appealing, over the heads of a media both he and his former boss have come to regard as irredeemably hostile...
...trove of meetings she held with Blair when he was opposition leader, and describe the interaction of Buckingham Palace and the Labour Party in the days after her death. Depicted in the Oscar-winning movie, The Queen, as a boorish bully who radiates contempt for the Palace, the author of the diaries instead betrays a respect for its residents. It's reciprocated. A senior official at Buckingham Palace told TIME "Alastair was wonderful that week...