Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic

by Jonathan Freedland

Book Overview

On a switchback ride through the USA, riding pillion with America's founding fathers, Jonathan Freedland searches out the qualities that made America the land at the end of his childhood rainbow, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841150215
• ISBN13: 9781841150215
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Harpercollins Pb
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

for poli-sci buffs with an anglophile streak

Wonderful book - and really easy to read. It simple terms it describes all that is good about the American and English governments can be combined. Very clever and often times, very funny. Perfect for poli-sci buffs that have a bit of an anglophile streak.

Thank Heaven We Live in America!

Here is an easy to read and understand book by a British author who bemoans the fact (although he didn't say so in exactly these words) that most Europeans, including the British, still have a serf mentality. Americans, however, believe that the government is their servant, not their master, which is the book's central theme and what the author admires most about America. (He also recommends a few ways that the British can make their government freer and more like ours.) "What it all adds up to," he says on page 52, "is an American culture of rights that allows the people to stand up to authority, whether through the Bill of Rights, the Freedom of Information Act or guaranteed free speech." He also admires how easily Americans can initiate ballot initiatives. All Americans know about the events of 1776 and 1789, but (page 156) "...Britain has no start date and no founding purpose." Give me liberty over "security" any day. Now we finally have a British author who thinks the same way, and it's about time.