Tony Blair/Bibliography

Biographical Articles

• tonyblairoffice.org - Official site with details of Tony Blair's post-Downing Street career.
• The Blair Years 1997-2007 - BBC articles covering major events of Tony Blair's premiership, with analysis.
• The New York Times - Includes short biography and links to NY Times articles relating to Tony Blair.
• Tony Blair, issue by issue by Tom Bentley; English edition, Le Monde diplomatique, February 2003.
• Tony Blair, British Prime Minister 1997-2007 Research Note, Parliament of Australia.

Speeches

• Tony Blair archive - official record of Tony Blair's speeches, films and podcasts from the UK Prime Minister's website.
• Blair:In his own words BBC Archive of quotes from Tony Blair during his ten years as Prime Minister

Books about Tony Blair

• Abse, Leo (2001) Tony Blair: The Man Behind the Smile. Robson Books, ISBN 1-86105-364-9 Written by a former, left-wing Labour MP, updated as Tony Blair: the man who lost his smile Robson Books, ISBN1861056982. Reviewed ("Mugged by an 86-year-old")in the New Statesman magazine. Extract: "Adolescent dreams of new regenerative politics acted out in rock [music] may be tolerable. But when the dream of rebirth is elaborated into a political manifesto, then we are placed on the alert; for this is the poison offered by the Nazi and fascist hucksters and accepted by their dupes."

• Beckett F, Hencke D (2004) The Blairs and Their Court. Aurum Press, ISBN 1-84513-024-3 See extracts here.

• Beckett F, Hencke D (2006)The Survivor: Tony Blair in Peace and War . Aurum Press, ISBN 184513110X. Written by two investigative journalists, this book was nominated for Britain’s Channel 4 "Political Book of the Year" Award.

• Blair, Tony (2004) New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country. Westerview Press, ISBN 081334235X. Review ("I'll not buy a book by that terrible little man")in the right-wing Spectator magazine.

• Campbell, Alastair (2007) The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries. Knopf, ISBN 0307268314. By the controversial Press Secretary to Tony Blair. Review ("Not such a lovely bloke") in The Guardian and another ("Vivid, intriguing, boastful - and honest") in The Times. Extract: "April 2003: Clare [Short] was rabbiting on more than ever. I slipped TB [Tony Blair] a note about the time Saddam shot his health minister at a meeting because she was annoying him and did he want me to get a gun? 'Yes,' he scribbled."

• Gould, Philip (1999) The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party. Abacus, ISBN 0-349-11177-4. Written by one of Blair's strategists. Reviewed in the Independent newspaper("No wonder Tony is a control freak")

• Naughtie, James (2001) The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency. Macmillan, ISBN 1-4050-5001-2. James Naughtie is a broadcaster with the BBC, and political journalist. Interview inThe Washington Post.

• Naughtie, James (2002) The Rivals. Fourth estate, ISBN 1841154741 The hardback version was subtitled Blair and Brown: the Intimate Story of a Political Marriage. Inspired the Channel Four televion drama The Deal.[1] Reviewed by The New Statesman ("...James Naughtie was paid more than £300,000 for the inside story on Blair and Brown. But his book was received with boredom and indifference.")

• Rawnsley, Andrew (2000) Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour. Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 0-241-14029-3. Rawnsley is a broadcaster and political journalist; he is Chief Political Commentator and Associate Editor for the Observer, a British Sunday newspaper. Review ("United they stand") in the New Statesman, October 2000.

• Rentoul, John (2001) Tony Blair: Prime Minister. Little Brown, ISBN 0-316-85496-4. First sentence: "Tony Blair's political ambition began at the age of eleven, when his father Leo's ended, on 4 July 1964."

• Paul Richards (Editor) (2004) Tony Blair In His Own Words. Politico's Publishing, ISBN 1842750895 Collection of Blair's speeches and writings.
• Riddell, Peter (2004) The Unfulfilled Prime Minister: Tony Blair and the End of Optimism. Politico's Publishing, ISBN 1-84275-113-1. Review (..Where did it all go wrong?") in the New Statesman.

• Seldon, Anthony (2004) Blair. Free Press, ISBN 0-7432-3211-9. Written by a historian and social commentator; see Selson on video "Tony Blair in History": introducing a Conference on "What ever happened to Cool Britannia? The UK after eight years of Blair." Montreal, August 2005.

• Short, Clare (2004) An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power. Free Press, ISBN 0-7432-6392-8. Clare Short was a left-wing minister in Blair's Cabinet; she resigned three times; twice in protest at Government policies in the two Gulf Wars and once in a protest against anti-terrorism legislation[2].

• Stephens, Philip (2004) Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader. Viking Books. ISBN 0-670-03300-6. Written by a senior editor of The Financial Times. Review ("A man for all seasons.") in The Economist. Extract: [For Blair,] "ending the tyranny in Iraq was a moral cause fully in accord with the teachings on just wars of Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas."

• Stothard, Peter (2003) Thirty Days: Tony Blair and the Test of History HarperCollins, ISBN 0060582618. Review in The New Yorker. Sir Peter Stophard, a former Editor of The Times. accompanied Blair daily in March and April 2003,

Scholarly studies

• Bevir, Mark and Rhodes, R. A. W. "Prime Ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens." Political Studies 2006 54(4): 671-690. Issn: 0032-3217 Fulltext: [ Ebsco ]
• Elden, Stuart. "Blair, Neo-conservatism and the War on Territorial Integrity." International Politics 2007 44(1): 37-57. Issn: 1384-5748
• Fielding, Steven. The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of New Labour. Palgrave, 2003. 247 pp., offers a systematic argument that the Labour Party, under Blair's leadership, has been faithful to its past, and represents "traditional values in a modern setting."
• Foley, Michael. John Major, Tony Blair and a Conflict of Leadership: Collision Course. Manchester U. Press, 2003. 212 pp.
• Gardner, Lloyd C. "'Damned High Wire,' on the Special Relationship That Unites Bush and Blair in Iraq." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 2005 3(1 Supplement): 43-62. Issn: 1479-4012 Fulltext: [ Ebsco ]
• Gray, John. "Blair's Project in Retrospect." International Affairs 2004 80(1): 39-48. Issn: 0020-5850 Fulltext: [ Ebsco ], argues Blair's project for closer relations with Europe was seriously damaged by his misjudged support for US foreign policy in Iraq in 2002-04.
• Needham, Catherine. "Brand Leaders: Clinton, Blair and the Limitations of the Permanent Campaign." Political Studies 2005 53(2): 343-361. Issn: 0032-3217 Fulltext: [ Ebsco ]
• Reitan, Earl A. The Thatcher Revolution: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair, and the Transformation of Modern Britain, 1979-2001. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 260 pp.
• Rubinstein, David. The Labour Party and British Society: 1880-2005. Brighton, Sussex Acad., 2005. 228 pp.