LORDS OF CREATION by Cook Margaret

LORDS OF CREATION by Cook Margaret

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LORDS OF CREATION by Cook Margaret

Margaret Cook had first-hand experience of how power affects a man's behaviour - specifically sexual behaviour - when her high-profile husband, then Foreign Secretary, left her publicly for his secretary. In this controversial book, she explores the remarkable stereotypical behavioural patterns of men (and women) who get in to power: egocentrism, autocracy and potentially tyranny. The behaviour of a broad spectrum of men is scrutinised here - including Oliver Cromwell, Pope Alexander VI, Napoleon, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Abraham Lincoln, Josif Stalin, Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon, the Kennedys, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. The author then goes on to discuss how much of this behaviour is inherited and how much is due to nurture. This controversial book uncovers fascinating and sometimes shocking truths about the nature of power, sexuality and government.
Margaret Cook was born in Pretoria, South Africa. She was educated in England and studied medicine at Edinburgh University. She is currently Consultant Haematologist at St John's Hospital, Livingston, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the faculty of medicine at Edinburgh University. Margaret has only written one other book, her memoirs, the ironically titled A Slight and Delicate Creature. She has regular agony auntand moral muse columns in the Woman's Journal and Observer Review respectively and is often called upon to comment on social issues.
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ISBN 13 9781861055521
ISBN 10 1861055528
Title LORDS OF CREATION
Author Cook Margaret
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2002-11-28
Number of pages 256
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