Grant Morgan

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Established narratives have romanticized the relationship between US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when evidence points to their relationship as actually being strained. Grant Morgan reviews a new account of the relationship in a new book by Richard Aldous, which argues that personalities matter as these two great leaders worked together to define the period.
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Get married, stay married, work hard and don’t have kids early. A new book from Charles Murray explains why some people succeed and others fail. Grant Morgan reviews Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010.
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A recent paper revealed that employees with selfish, deceitful, and aggressive personality traits were no more likely to succeed than those who were generous, trustworthy, and generally nice. But does this apply to politics? Grant Morgan reviews Elusive Destiny, about former Liberal leader (and, very briefly, Prime Minister) John Turner. Hint: Turner was generally thought of as a nice guy.
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A Review of John Boyko’s Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation
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One inevitable side-effect of the disastrous performance of the U.S. Republicans in recent elections, and the apparent revival of statist economics across the western world, has been a sudden proliferation of books offering theories on the decline of conservatism and prescriptions for its revival. Derbyshire, however, makes a surprisingly energetic and amusing case for why conservatives should be unrelentingly pessimistic.

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