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About the Author
Stephen Parkinsongraduated from Cambridge in 2004, and was President ofthe Union in Lent Term that year. He spent two years in theConservative Research Department before becoming Directorof Research at the Centre for Policy Studies. In late 2007 hereturned to Conservative Central Office, where he works on theparty's target seats campaign.
Reviews
'Stephen Parkinson has written a hugely impressive history of the Cambridge Union; scholarly, nuanced and well written, with a perceptible fondness for the institution. As a nursery for some of the most talented, witty, intelligent and cringe-makingly precocious of our future leaders, the Union Society chamber was consciously based on that of the House of Commons. As an insight onto the doings of our leaders before they were famous, this fine book will amuse and instruct. In a society that prizes debate more in the abstract than the action, it will remind us of what political discourse once was like, and ought to be again.' -- Andrew Roberts, Historian and author of 'Masters & Commanders.'
'At Cambridge you worshipped, you reviled or you ignored the Union - or it scared you (and me) witless. But you never learned about its origins and history. Stephen Parkinson has done this for us, producing a book that's informative and respectful without being fawning or pompous. It's a good read, as well as good history.' -- Matthew Parris
Book Information
ISBN 9781848310612
Author Stephen Parkinson
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Icon Books
Publisher Icon Books