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Patten, Chris, 1944-
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Patten, Chris, 1944-
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
Conservative Party (Great Britain)
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.
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Patten, Chris, 1944-
Patten, Chris, 1944-
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
Conservative Party (Great Britain)
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.
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First confession : a sort of memoir / Chris Patten.
by
Patten, Chris, 1944-
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2017.
Call #:
941.086 P316f
Subjects
Patten, Chris, 1944-
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
Conservative Party (Great Britain)
Politicians
--
Great Britain
--
Biography.
Hong
Kong
(
China
)
--
History
--
Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain,
1997
.
Hong
Kong
(
China
)
--
Politics and government.
ISBN:
9780241275597 (hc.)
Description:
311 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"Chris Patten's career has taken him from the outer London suburbs to the House of Commons (Conservative Member of Parliament for Bath from 1979 to 1992). a seat in the Cabinet, the 28th and last Governor of
Hong
Kong
from 1992 to
1997
, Chairman of the BBC and Chancellor of Oxford University. He has unexpected and telling things to say about each of the three Prime Ministers for whom he worked - Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major. But his political heroes - Baldwin, Macmillan, Butler - came from an earlier time. Patten uses each phase of his life as a spur to reflect upon its contemporary situation - education, America, conservatism, Ireland,
China
, Europe and finally the question of links between violence and religion. At the end, the reader has an impression of someone who knows himself as well as any of us can, and who continues to think, passionately and intelligently, about the world around him. A meditation on personal and political identity which, in an age of simplification, reminds us of the complexities of both"--Provided by publisher.
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Autobiographies.
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