Dimensions
146 x 222 x 19mm
Few, if any, contemporary political writers can match Bernard Crick's mastery of the political essay.
In an intellectual climate in which, as Tony Wright argued in a review of Crick's previous collection of essays, fellow academics have expressed "a sort of good-humoured venom reserved for one of their number who thought the study of politics had something to do with a culture of citizenship rather than a collection of footnotes (the unreadable in search of the unteachable), Crick's "learned essays" are a pleasure to read.
This collection demonstrates the vast range of his reading and writing with sparkling, pithy, erudite and witty pieces on British identity, on the Northern Irish peace process, on New Labour, on Shaw, Berlin, Laski and Arendt, and on the present (deplorable) state of political writing.
'Crossing Borders' provides overwhelming evidence that important ideas and arguments can and most certainly should be expressed to be accessible and enlightening to the intelligent, non-specialist reader.
