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Guardian angel : my journey from leftism to sanity / Melanie Phillips.
Van Pelt Library PN5123.P52 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Melanie, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phillips, Melanie, 1951-.
- Phillips, Melanie.
- Women journalists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women journalists.
- Culture conflict--Great Britain.
- Culture conflict.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Beginning with her solitary childhood in London, it took years for Melanie Phillips to understand her parents' emotional frailties and even longer to escape from them. But Phillips inherited her family's strong Jewish values and a passionate commitment to freedom from oppression. It was this moral foundation that ultimately turned her against the warped and tyrannical attitudes of the Left, requiring her to break away not only from her parents--but also from the people she had seen as her wider political family. Through her poignant story of transformation and separation, we gain insight into the political uproar that has engulfed the West. Britain's vote to leave the EU, the rise of far-Right political parties in Europe, and the stunning election of US president Donald Trump all involve a revolt against the elites by millions. It is these disdained masses who have been championed by Melanie Phillips in a career as prescient as it has been provocative."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Perfect Family Storm: The Shaping of a Culture Warrior 15
- Chapter 2 The Guardian of Eden: I Arrive in Paradise 38
- Chapter 3 Little Miss Guardianista: The Darling of the Left 47
- Chapter 4 A Defining Moment: The Iron Enters My Soul 54
- Chapter 5 Traitors: How the Baton Was Snapped 63
- Chapter 6 Stumbling into the Culture Wars 75
- Chapter 7 Onwards into the Fire 90
- Chapter 8 Journalism in Transition 102
- Chapter 9 End Times at the Guardian 105
- Chapter 10 The Worst Witch in the Hunt 109
- Chapter 11 All Must Have Prizes 121
- Chapter 12 The Battle for Britain's Soul 126
- Chapter 13 I Finally Leave Guardian Newspapers 140
- Chapter 14 A Voyage Away from My Father 146
- Chapter 15 From Culture War to the War of Civilization 152
- Chapter 16 Separated at Last 166
- Chapter 17 A Very Strange Obsession 169.
- ISBN:
- 9781682615683
- 1682615685
- OCLC:
- 1006793491
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