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“All Out War is brilliant. It’s one of the best political books I’ve ever read. It’s 200,000 words and he wrote it in something like ten weeks. Just to produce that amount of words that quickly and for it to be so good is really phenomenal. There’s the old cliche about journalism being the first draft of history. This really is.” Read more...
Boris Starling, Thriller and Crime Writer
Starting with the books by Tim Shipman, All Out War and Fallout: these are consummate insider accounts of the politics of the last few years. These are events we’re still living through, and the third book in the trilogy will be out later this year.
Both are really substantive books that I give to my students. They’re very long and very detailed, not lightweight books by any means. He’s got this amazing capacity to marshal the minutiae of what’s going on, but also make his account rich in its personalities and its anecdotes.
The level of access he’s been able to get is breathtaking. You get a sense of really being told what people were arguing and thinking and saying to each other. For me, it’s the level of insider access that makes these books stand apart and it’s what journalists like Shipman can give you.
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