Tony Blair: The Man Who Lost His Smile

by Leo Abse (Author)

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  2003

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  In this volume, reforming parliamentarian Leo Abse presents an analysis of Tony Blair. Originally published in 1996, the author has revised the book to scrutinize Blair's premiership years. In an investigation of Blair's psyche, Abse deploys psychoanalytsical scholarship to consider the forces and influences that have driven Blair. He exmaines the house of secrets in which Blair was reared, where the promiscuous grandmother forever cast a shadow, where the legitimate stricken father - authoritative, ambitious and politically unstable - dominated the household, and where death unfairly invaded the family domain. Abse goes on to show how the traumatic effects of Balir's childhood left him a loner, an estranged man who sought to resolve his private dilemmas in rock music and religion and then, belatedly, in politics.