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Article: This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 14, 1998
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Whether or not you share in detail its view of Europe, this powerful bookis the sort of polemical tour-de-force that comes once a generation
HERE is a great work of contemporary history. It goes against the spirit of a sceptical age to offer such praise, but truth demands it. In the depth of its research, the controlled anger of its polemic and the coruscating brilliance of its prose, ``This Blessed Plot'' deserves to rank with Carlyle, de Tocqueville and Frederick Jackson Turner. Anyone seeking to understand Britain's tortuous and tortured relationship with its continental neighbours in the post-war period has no option but to read it and ponder it deeply.
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