Henry Fairlie - Books

Books

  • The Life of Politics, Methuen, 1969.
  • The Kennedy Promise, Doubleday, 1973.
  • The Spoiled Child of the Western World: The Miscarriage of the American Idea in Our Time, Doubleday, 1976.
  • The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century, St. Martin's, 1978.
  • The Seven Deadly Sins Today, New Republic Books, 1978.
  • Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations, edited by Jeremy McCarter, Yale University Press, 2009.

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