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The English - a portrait of a people
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	The English - a portrait of a people THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'As good and as funny a description of the current state of our race as you will find anywhere' HENRY PORTER, GUARDIAN 'He tos and fros between sources as various as Brief Encounter and Mrs Miniver - through byways which include a jewel of an encounter between Bernie Grant MP and Duke of Edinburgh, a brilliant analysis of the Church of England and Dostoevsky's impressions of 19th-century London...It is hard to think of anyone better than Jeremy Paxman to shove the English in the right direction' CARMEN CALLIL, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'An intelligent, well-written, informative and funny book ...covering history; attitudes to foreigners, sex, food and sport; English stereotypes, the condition or the language and so on ... a book to chew on, dip into, quote from and exploit in arguments .... The book brims with reference and subtle allusion' ANDREW MARR, OBSERVER 'Stimulating, adventurous and witty' TIMES TIMES
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The English - a portrait of a people