Ebook: My Life, Our Times
Author: Brown Gordon
- Tags: Autobiography: historical political & military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Presidents & Heads of State, British & Irish history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economic History, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic history, Geopolitics, HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain--General, Political leaders & leadership, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Conservatism & Liberalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Politic
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Random House
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.
In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight as a student and the death of his daughter within days of her birth, he shares the passionately held principles that have shaped and driven him, reminding us that politics can and should be a calling to serve.
He explains how as Chancellor he equipped Britain for a globalised economy while swimming against the neoliberal tide and shows what more must be done to halt rising inequality. In his behind-the-scenes account of the financial crisis and his leading role in saving the world economy from collapse, he addresses the question of who was to blame for the crash and why its causes and consequences still beset us.
From the invasion of Iraq to the tragedy of...