Geoffrey Wheatcroft's Books
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Le Tour: A History of the Tour De FranceA masterly and hugely entertaining history of one of the greatest and most controversial sporting events in the world: the Tour de France -- now updatRead More
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Jerusalem Post, February 18, 2013
...to the Jewish state are/were Tony Judt, Amos Elon, Bernard Avishai, Eyal Press, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Jonathan Freedland and lately, Ta'yush activist and Hebrew University (again that institution?) lecturer, David Shulman,...
National Times, January 28, 2013
...have reached the White House. And without the name Clinton, Hillary Rodham would never have held high office. Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of a forthcoming book on Winston Churchill. This is an extract from his essay in the latest edition of...
Times Live South Africa, January 21, 2013
...were too good to be true when he won his first Tour de France way back in 1999. Geoffrey Wheatcroft's engaging La Tour: A History of the Tour de France, published in 2003, also dealt with Armstrong's doping suspicions at some length. Indeed, Wheatcroft...
Spectator, December 21, 2012
...to laugh at repetitive jokes about a deluded old dunderhead as he made his confused journey through Spain. Geoffrey Wheatcroft Some years ago a question about overrated books was asked by one of the Sunday papers, and the respondents included the...
New Statesman, November 29, 2012
...Talitha Stevenson | John Sutherland | Andrew Adonis | Christopher Ricks | Jonathan Derbyshire | John Burnside | Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Craig Raine | Peter Wilby | Benjamin Kunkel | Jason Cowley | Alex Preston Index Rowan Williams | A S Byatt | Ed...
Guardian.co.uk, November 20, 2012
...why he had cross-political as well as cross-generational appeal. I offer, for instance, this unimprovably beautiful sentiment from Geoffrey Wheatcroft, from a review of a festschrift for Ward some years ago: "And yet the anti-authoritarian tradition of...
New York Times, November 9, 2012
...who threatened to break the code of omert, telling him to get out of the race. 1 2 Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s books include “Le Tour: A History of the ,” “The Strange Death of Tory England” and “Yo, Blair!...
Guardian.co.uk, May 17, 2013
...appears on television; most recently the survivors of Arctic and Atlantic convoys. Their matter-of-fact stoicism seems incredible. As Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote recently in a review of a memoir by Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames, in which she recounts...
Magic City Morning Star, April 21, 2013
...non-Jewish world really so stupid and obtuse? I would say willful, even guileful, but never stupid and obtuse. Geoffrey Wheatcroft erroneously surmised that "Zionism was itself a response to antisemitism, to gentile contempt." Wheatcroft, like every...
Gulf News, April 19, 2013
...did not know when to stop. In the end, Thatcher herself went too far with what the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft called her ?historically essential mission? in a country looking to be released from its crippling contract with a Keynesianism that in the...
Korea Joongang Daily, April 17, 2013
...also didn’t know when to stop. In the end, Thatcher went too far with what the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft called her “historically essential mission” in a country looking to be released from its crippling contract with a Keynesianism that in...
Bloomberg, April 17, 2013
...didn’t know when to stop. In the end, Thatcher herself went too far with what the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft called her “historically essential mission” in a country looking to be released from its crippling contract with a Keynesianism that...
Bloomberg, April 16, 2013
...didn’t know when to stop. In the end, Thatcher herself went too far with what the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft called her “historically essential mission” in a country looking to be released from its crippling contract with a Keynesianism that...
Bloomberg, April 16, 2013
...didn’t know when to stop. In the end, Thatcher herself went too far with what the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft called her “historically essential mission” in a country looking to be released from its crippling contract with a Keynesianism that...
