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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The Independent, May 25, 2013
...that's what you want, get hold of The Great Bike Race by Geoffrey Nicholson or, more recently, Geoffrey Wheatcroft's Le Tour. What it does offer is fascinating incidental detail in a far more immediate, tactile way. Read through the entry form for 1955...
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...
Daily Dispatch, June 13, 2013
...to the constitutional principle of nonracialism. They bring to mind the 16th century heretics, the Antinomians, of whom Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote: “They believed that to the pure, all things are pure. If you were of the elect, the saved, you could do...
National Interest, June 12, 2013
...vision of an Israel sliding further and further into isolation as it succumbs to the imperial temptation that Geoffrey Wheatcroft limns in his accompanying essay in The National Interest about the history of Zionism. My own hope is that, against all the...
BDlive, June 11, 2013
...to the constitutional principle of nonracialism. They bring to mind the 16th century heretics, the Antinomians, of whom Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote: "They believed that to the pure, all things are pure. If you were of the elect, the saved, you could do no...
BDlive, June 11, 2013
...to the constitutional principle of nonracialism. They bring to mind the 16th century heretics, the Antinomians, of whom Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote: "They believed that to the pure, all things are pure. If you were of the elect, the saved, you could do no...
The Independent, May 25, 2013
...that's what you want, get hold of The Great Bike Race by Geoffrey Nicholson or, more recently, Geoffrey Wheatcroft's Le Tour. What it does offer is fascinating incidental detail in a far more immediate, tactile way. Read through the entry form for 1955...
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...
