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Just Boris - A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson (Paperback)
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Just Boris - A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson (Paperback)
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A major and controversial new biography of one of the most
compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just '
Boris' - the only politician of the age to be regarded in such
familiar, even affectionate terms. Uniquely, he combines comedy
with erudition, gimlet-eyed focus with jokey self-deprecation, and
is a loving family man with a roving eye. He is also a hugely
ambitious figure with seemingly no huge ambitions to pursue - other
than, perhaps, power itself. In this revealing biography, written
from the vantage point of a once close colleague, Sonia Purnell
examines how a shy, young boy from a broken home became our only
box-office politician - and most unlikely sex god; how the Etonian
product fond of Latin tags became a Man of the People - and why he
wanted to be; how the gaffe-prone buffoon charmed Londonders to win
the largest personal mandate Britain has ever seen; and how the
Johnson family built our biggest - and blondest - media and
political dynasty. The first forensic account of a remarkable rise
to fame and power, Just Boris unravels this most compelling of
political enigmas and asks whether the Mayor who dreams of crossing
the Thames to Downing Street has what it takes to be Prime
Minister.
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