You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024

Name: You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024
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A memoir of the political-intellectual life of the revolutionary writer Tariq Ali This volume covers four The Eighties and Nineties when the author was no longer engaged in active politics as a party-member of any sort, but had moved sideways to politico-cultural Setting up Bandung Productions (with Darcus Howe) and launching the Bandung File, a unique current affairs show on Channel Four and subsequently Rear Window that mixed culture, politics and ideas.A mixture of anecdotes, reflections, jottings and story-telling the book covers defeats and the rise of new social, political, anti-imperialist. His friendship with Hugo Chavez and trips to most of South America at the height of the Bolivarian wave

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The characters who appear in the book reflect life in the Eighties and beyond to the present day.There are pen-portraits of Edward Said, the intellectuals that founded and re-launched the New Left Edward Thompson, Perry Anderson, Raphael Samuel as well as his time at Private Eye, the LRB and The Guardian.