An excoriating account of a dysfunctional governing system ... A brilliant insider portrait of a nation in decline, penned by an exasperated modern Boswell ... All of which makes for a superbly readable book.
Stewart has the sensibility of a writer: he is a man of grand dreams and acute perceptions ... To the accusation that the book is petty or vengeful Stewart is able to reply that he is cruellest to himself. He is filled with the urgency and self-loathing that so often accompany prodigious achievement.
