"man who lacked, as Blair himself might put it, the New Labour baggage), by a whisker – just over 1%. And at a stroke, it's clear these great, vocal proselytisers of New Labour have unwittingly written its epitaph."" A Journey A Journey is a memoir by Tony Blair of his tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Published in the UK on 1 September 2010, it covers events from when he became leader of the Labour Party in 1994 and transformed it into ""New Labour"", holding power for a party record three successive terms, to his resignation and replacement"
"of ""A Journey"", the screenwriter of the 2006 film ""The Queen"", which depicts Blair's first months in office, accused Blair of plagiarising a conversation with Elizabeth II from him. In March 2010, it was reported that Blair's memoirs, under the title ""The Journey"", would be published in September. Gail Rebuck, chairman and chief executive of Random House, announced that the memoirs would be published by Hutchinson in the United Kingdom. She predicted that the book would ""break new ground in prime ministerial memoirs just as Blair himself broke the mould of British politics."" Preliminary images of the book's cover, showing"
"interns. In December 2016, Blair created the Tony Blair Institute to promote global outlooks by governments and organisations. In March 2010, it was reported that Blair's memoirs, titled ""The Journey"", would be published in September 2010. In July 2010 it was announced the memoirs would be retitled ""A Journey"". The memoirs were seen by many as controversial and a further attempt to profit from his office and from acts related to overseas wars that were widely seen as wrong, leading to anger and suspicion prior to launch. On 16 August 2010 it was announced that Blair would give the £4.6"
"journeys, and the journey ""from life to death"". Cronin said that many of the places featured in the novel were selected because they were places he had lived, and that he decided to ""travel every mile my characters did, to capture not only the details of place, but the feeling of place."" The ""National Post"" called ""The Passage"" ""Homeric"" and ""one of the creepiest books of 2010"". The book has earned comparisons to ""The Stand"", and earned Cronin comparisons to Michael Crichton. ""Publishers Weekly"" criticized Cronin's use of certain ""tropes"" of the genre, but added that ""he manages to engage"
"by campaigners. In subsequent weeks, a number of media organisations reported that copies of ""A Journey"" were being moved from autobiographical sections in bookshops to sections on crime and horror. More than 10,000 people had joined a Facebook page calling for that action. ""A Journey"" drew a mixed reception from critics. ""Financial Times"" editor Lionel Barber called it ""part psychodrama, part treatise on the frustrations of leadership in a modern democracy ... written in a chummy style with touches of Mills & Boon"". He wrote that it made Blair seem ""likable, if manipulative; capable of dissembling while wonderfully fluent; in"
"Blair in an open-neck shirt, were released. In July, the memoir was retitled as ""A Journey""; one publishing expert speculated that it was changed to make Blair appear ""less messianic"". The publisher did not give any reason. It was announced the book would be published by Knopf in the United States and Canada under the title ""A Journey: My Political Life""; and in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India by Random House. It was also released as an audiobook, read by Blair available for download and on 13 compact discs with a playing time of 16 hours. The book"
"I thought it was all a bit sad. It was so one-sided. I didn't think it was comradely."" Several more of Blair's former colleagues and political opponents also commented on the book. Former Conservative minister Norman Tebbit wrote in ""The Daily Telegraph"", """"A Journey"" seems to be dominated by Blair's anxiety to be seen as a great political leader who changed his country for the better. In fact it is, as I suppose all such books are to some extent, entirely about justifying himself and blaming others."" However, Tebbit admitted he had not read the book at the time of"
"who inquired about the welfare of his family pets. Several commentators doubted that Allen could have travelled his reported route within three months, leading to the cancellation of a lecture he was to give to the Royal Geographical Society. Allen admits that ""Mad White Giant"" is ""unreliable"" in terms of factual detail, a deliberate bid to distance his novel from the traditional travelogue genre. He also attributes any potential inaccuracies to the loss of his notes in a canoe capsizing, and in changes made to protect a travelling companion. Allen stated of his novel's integrity: I think of myself as"
"the publication of his memoirs, ""A Journey"" (Pat Kenny obtained the first radio interview for ""Today with Pat Kenny"" but this was broadcast after the televised interview). Blair is believed to have taken this decision as he had hoped it would divert attention away from the more negative aspects of his foreign policy as UK prime minister, i.e. Afghanistan and Iraq. Tubridy spent an entire week studying Blair in preparation for the interview, and sought advice from Jon Snow of the UK's Channel 4 on which manner he ought to adopt in dealing with Blair. Snow vowed that anything interesting"
"health further deteriorated in December to the extent that he was scarcely able to paint. He began an autobiographical memoir he called ""Avant et après (Before and After)"" (published in translation in the US as ""Intimate Journals""), which he completed over the next two months. The title was supposed to reflect his experiences before and after coming to Tahiti and as tribute to his own grandmother's unpublished memoir ""Past and Future"". His memoir proved to be a fragmented collection of observations about life in Polynesia, his own life, and comments on literature and paintings. He included in it attacks on"
"journey needs to be given a travel advisory: much of the prose is execrable ... I could say that it is a pity that Tony Blair did not employ a ghostwriter to prettify the prose and organise his recollections more elegantly."" Rawnsley does, though, praise the book as being ""a more honest political memoir than most and more open in many respects than I had anticipated."" Julian Glover, a columnist in ""The Guardian"", said that ""no political memoir has ever been like this: a book written as if in a dream—or a nightmare; a literary out-of-body experience. By turns honest,"
"crusader, Senator Joseph McCarthy. In ""Desolation Angels"" he wrote, ""when I went to Columbia all they tried to teach us was Marx, as if I cared"" (considering Marxism, like Freudianism, to be an illusory tangent). In 1957, after being rejected by several other publishers, ""On the Road"" was finally purchased by Viking Press, which demanded major revisions prior to publication. Many of the more sexually explicit passages were removed and, fearing libel suits, pseudonyms were used for the book's ""characters."" These revisions have often led to criticisms of the alleged spontaneity of Kerouac's style. In July 1957, Kerouac moved to"
"Airick Woodhead, titled his 2015 release ""The Air Conditioned Nightmare"", with the album's themes of disconnection and mankind vaguely linked to Miller's book of the same name. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is a memoir written by Henry Miller, first published in 1945, about his year-long road trip across the United States in 1939, following his return from nearly a decade living in Paris. Miller was born and raised in New York City, and moved to Paris in 1930, at the age of 38. He conceived of a book about traveling across the United States as early as 1935,"
"out of his wish to find some purpose for the deep misery of his worst depression. He was strongly urged to stop drinking alcohol and occasionally managed short periods of abstinence. Yet he never really wanted long-term abstinence enough to make any real success of this. He was as a whole capable of great self-discipline, but needed to want his objectives with intense singular-mindedness in order to achieve them. The two journal books were entitled ""Part of a Journey"" (covering 1977 to 1979) and ""End of a Journey"" (1979 to 1981). They were very well thought of by a number"
"individual by name"". Faculty have complained of pressure tactics being used to coerce their support of the vice chancellor's decision. The book is unlikely to be reintroduced in the short term on account of possibility of law and order problems. Mistry has also expressed disappointment in a statement regarding the withdrawal. – Indira Gandhi (prime minister) 434313 Such a Long Journey (novel) Such a Long Journey is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other awards. In 2010 the book made headlines when it was withdrawn from the University of Mumbai's"
"accomplished some writing tasks, primarily submitting an account of his trip in several instalments to ""The Morning Chronicle"", which helped to pay for the trip. These articles were later collected and published in book form in 1826 as ""Notes of a Journey through France and Italy"" (despite the title, there is also much about the other countries he visited, particularly Switzerland). This was an escape for a time from all the conflicts, the bitter reactions to his outspoken criticisms, and the attacks on his own publications back in England. And, despite interludes of illness, as well as the miseries of"
"Journey (novel) Journey, a novel by James Michener published in 1989, was expanded from a section originally cut from his large novel ""Alaska"" (1988). The book depicts five men, one of whom was an English Lord, journeying in 1897-99 from Great Britain through Canada to Dawson, Yukon, to participate in the Klondike gold rush. According to the novel's afterword, the section was cut from the original book because ""Alaska"" already contained a chapter on the Alaskan side of the gold rush. It was decided that chapter (which eventually became ""Journey"") could stand on its own as a short novel. In"
"Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants, is the fourth novel by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the sequel to ""Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"" (""Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre"") (1795–96). Though initially conceived during the 1790s, the first edition did not appear until 1821, and the second edition—differing substantially from the first—in 1829. The novel was greeted by mixed reviews in the 1820s, and did not gain full critical attention until the mid-20th century. Consisting largely of discrete short stories and novellas woven together with elements of the epistolary novel, lengthy sections of aphorisms, and several interspersed"
"Italian Journey Italian Journey (in the German original: ""Italienische Reise"" ) is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786–88, published in 1816–17. The book is based on Goethe's diaries. It is smoothed in style, lacking the spontaneity of his diary report, and augmented with the addition of afterthoughts and reminiscences. At the beginning of September 1786, when Goethe had just turned thirty-seven, he ""slipped away"", in his words, from his duties as Privy Councillor in the Duchy of Weimar, from a long platonic affair with a court lady, and from his immense fame as the"
"in one day than Peter Mandelson's """" had done in its first three weeks earlier that year. It debuted at the top of Amazon.co.uk's British best-seller list. Within a week, Nielsen BookScan said that 92,000 copies of ""A Journey"" had been sold in the United Kingdom, the best opening week for an autobiography since the company began keeping figures in 1998. ""The New York Times"" reported that in the United States, an initial print run of 50,000 copies had been extended by another 25,000, with the book set to debut at Number 3 on ""The New York Times"" hardcover best-seller"
"public opinion"". Nomad: From Islam to America Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (first published May 18, 2010) is a memoir by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a sequel to her ""New York Times"" bestseller ""Infidel"". Released in the United States by Free Press, it deals in greater depth than the earlier book with certain aspects of the author's childhood in Somalia, Kenya and Saudi Arabia, and in particular with her family, as well as with her exile from the Netherlands and her present home with the American Enterprise Institute in the United States. The"
"Australia's ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" Alexander Downer, who served as Foreign Minister in the Government of John Howard gave ""A Journey"" a favourable review: ""His [Blair's] commitment to humanity is sincere and convincing, and his personality infectiously amiable with a delightful sense of self-deprecating humour."" Konrad Yakabuski, a senior political writer for Canada's ""The Globe and Mail"" was also positive: ""If Tony Blair has not continued to agonize over the tough decisions of his prime ministership, he does a pretty good job of persuading otherwise in A Journey."" India's English language daily ""The Hindu"" said of the book, ""It is"
"last book being ""Remember Your Grammar and Other Haunted Stories"", 1997, a collection of short ghost and supernatural stories. In 1990 his book of anecdotes and reminiscences, ""Is there anybody there? said the Traveller"" (Frederick Muller 1990) had been withdrawn in the face of a series of libel threats, including a suit from his former publisher Anthony Blond. Thereafter he planned, or at least threatened, to write a new work ""All Safely Dead"", in which, safe from the laws of libel, he could ""expose"" various deceased luminaries from the British social, academic, political and literary scenes, but the book was"
"travels in Europe, and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him. The novel was extremely popular and influential and helped establish travel writing as the dominant genre of the second half of the 18th century. Unlike prior travel accounts which stressed classical learning and objective non-personal points of view, ""A Sentimental Journey"" emphasized the subjective discussions of personal taste and sentiments, of manners and morals over classical learning. Throughout the 1770s female travel writers began publishing significant numbers of sentimental travel accounts. Sentiment also became a favorite style among those expressing"
"and its distinctness from other political philosophies. Journey Continued: An Autobiography Journey Continued: An Autobiography is the second part of Alan Paton's autobiography, the first being ""Towards the Mountain"". Paton had completed the writing and correction of the volume, but he died before its publication in 1988. The book addresses a wide variety of topics, personal, professional, philosophical, and political. For example, it discusses the way in which Paton's ""Cry, The Beloved Country"" was adapted for Broadway, but it also discusses the Christian basis for Paton's activism. ""Journey Continued"" outlines long Paton's and deep involvement with the Liberal Party of"
"The Worst Journey in the World The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and published in 1922 by a member of the expedition, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning (if any) of human suffering under extreme conditions. In 1910, Cherry-Garrard and his fellow explorers travelled by sailing vessel, the ""Terra Nova"", from Cardiff to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. 'Cherry' was teased at first by some"
"working title """"Whoops, There's a Dick in Me"""". Not Afraid of Life Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far is a memoir written by Bristol Palin and Nancy French. The book was released in June 2011. In ""Not Afraid of Life"", Bristol Palin discusses her personal life, including tensions with the McCain family, and losing her virginity. The book received mixed reviews. Palin was criticised for releasing a memoir at the age of 20. ""Not Afraid of Life"" had sold fewer than 10,000 copies as of September 2011. Soon after the book's release, comedian and television host Bill Maher"
"Thatcher. Blair was criticised by various Thatcherites such as: John Redwood, Norman Tebbit and William Hague. In his autobiography published in 2010, titled ""A Journey"", Blair remarked: Gordon Brown succeeded Blair as Prime Minister after Brown's long tenure as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Although viewed in the media as somewhat personally close, Blair later wrote in his autobiography ""A Journey"" that a ""maddening"" Brown effectively blackmailed him while he was in 10 Downing Street. Blair accused Brown of orchestrating the investigation into the cash-for-honours scandal and stated that the personal animosity was so strong that it led him to"
"English Journey English Journey is an account by J. B. Priestley of his travels in England which was published in 1934. Commissioned by publisher Victor Gollancz to write a study of contemporary England, Priestley recounts his travels around England in 1933. He shares his observations on the social problems he witnesses, and appeals for democratic socialist change. ""English Journey"" was an influential work, inspiring George Orwell's ""The Road to Wigan Pier"", and ""has even been credited with winning the 1945 election for the Labour Party"". In the work, Priestley also expresses racism towards Irish immigrants in England: ""A great many"
"The Hero's Journey (book) The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work is a biography of the mythologist Joseph Campbell 1904-1987. In the form of a series of conversations, the book was drawn from the film, ""The Hero's Journey: A Biographical Portrait"" This book was originally published by HarperCollins in 1990. A second edition was published in 1999 by Element Books—which closed within weeks of the book's rerelease, leaving it out of print again until another new edition was published by New World Library in 2003 in anticipation of the centennial of Campbell's birth. This edition was the"
"of two autobiographies he wrote in his later years. What remains unclear is whether Price was acting as a patriotic American or if he was on the payroll of military intelligence. Price's travels also proved the inspiration for his highly popular ""Adventure"" series of novels for young readers, which describe the daring exploits of globe-trotting teenage zoologists Hal and Roger Hunt. Shortly before his death, Price commented that: My aim in writing the ""Adventure"" series for young people was to lead them to read by making reading exciting and full of adventure. At the same time I want to inspire"
"Journey Continued: An Autobiography Journey Continued: An Autobiography is the second part of Alan Paton's autobiography, the first being ""Towards the Mountain"". Paton had completed the writing and correction of the volume, but he died before its publication in 1988. The book addresses a wide variety of topics, personal, professional, philosophical, and political. For example, it discusses the way in which Paton's ""Cry, The Beloved Country"" was adapted for Broadway, but it also discusses the Christian basis for Paton's activism. ""Journey Continued"" outlines long Paton's and deep involvement with the Liberal Party of South Africa, and his views on liberalism"
"This Is Herman Cain! This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House, an autobiography by Herman Cain, was released on October 4, 2011. The text is published by Threshold Editions. The memoir made the Amazon.com top 10 Best Sellers list. Cain has previously stated that he has not been familiar with issues related to Israel, and that he was reading “Israel at Sixty: An Oral History of a Nation Reborn,” a text written by Gerald and Deborah Strober. The three collaborated, and the result was, ""This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House."" Frank Breeden, Cain’s"