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The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive?

Name: The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive?
Author: Christopher Booker
ISBN: 9780826480149

by Christopher Booker, Richard North

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Overview

This is a paperbound reprint of a 2003 book. Booker (a writer with the Sunday Telegraph) and North (formerly research director for the European Parliament's Europe of Democracies and Diversities group) chronicle the history of the European Union from a decidedly skeptical (and British) perspective. The "Great Deception" to which British leaders constantly fell prey was, in their view, a consistent obscuring of an agenda designed to create a European "supragovernment" unaccountable to national publics. They trace the origins of the European project to period immediately following World War I, thus contradicting many of the historical narratives of "Euroskeptics" and "Europhiles" alike. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the Author, Christopher Booker

As a noted commentator on the political, social and psychological history of our time, Christopher Booker has in recent years, through his weekly Sunday Telegraph column, become the most conspicuous 'global warming sceptic' in the British press. He has based his view on exhaustive research into the scientific evidence for and against the theory of 'man-made climate change'.

His professional interest in this issue grew out of research for his previous book Scared To Death, co-written with Dr Richard North, a study of the 'scare phenomenon' which has been such a prominent feature of Western life in recent decades. Booker's other recent books have included The Seven Basic Plots, a best-selling analysis of why we tell stories which has established itself as a standard text (also published by Continuum). He has been an author and journalist for nearly 50 years, and was the founding editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye.

Richard North is a political analyst who has been a research director in the European Parliament and was formerly a nationally-known consultant on public health and food safety. He has co-authored several books with Christopher Booker.