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Now that the casino economy has veered wildly out of control, and our public utilities and industries have been auctioned to the highest bidder, Broonland is both an essential anatomy of a country on the brink of collapse and a caustic, darkly funny portrait of a decade that took Britain from boom through bust to busted.
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“A capacious critique of this most complex of modern British politicians… his biographical connection with Brown… turns Harvie into something like a polymathic Jiminy Cricket, perfectly perched at the PM's shoulder… Harvie possesses a map to the full hinterland of Gordon Brown.”
“An impish romp through the New Labour era … with Brown cast as a socialist Faust seduced by the capitalist Mephistopheles of the City of London… [Harvie’s] unique skill is having an eye for the curious and complex interconnections between making money and making culture. This book covers everything from organized crime to football… If you like writing stuffed with fascinating ideas, to the point that the sentences burst like a badly wrapped present from an enthusiastic friend, then dip in.”
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