Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316031453 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She is married to Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister. Cherie Blair, known professionally as Cherie Booth QC, is an English barrister
Kindle Customer said A TREASURE!. Reading this autobiography was like talking to a best friend, who just happens to be the irrepressible Cherie Blair. There is much information, told very honestly and wonderfully openly. It is a great example of the saying that "truth is stranger than fiction". A novelist could not . Fascinating character study of a flawed woman who's led an interesting life Cherie Blair's main claim to fame is her marriage to Tony Blair who was Britain's Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007. However she is also an interesting individual in her own right: the daughter of a famous actor who has had a prestigious legal career as well as having a front row sea. "An engaging person tells a frank story" according to Jonathan Groner. I knew relatively little about Cherie Blair before going to her book signing and purchasing her book. I found it a quick read and remarkably frank for a person who has been in public life. She doesn't hold back on very much -- she discusses her methods of birth control, her exaspera
Scores of celebrities and prominent political figures appear throughout the narrative, and it’s not too hard to guess which ones are on Cherie’s good side and which ones most decidedly are not. Blair had a box seat to many of the most formative international events of the last few decades, and although her insider’s view of history unfolding may be a biased one, it is nevertheless a fascinating one. Still, there is no denying that Mrs. --Margaret Flanagan . Rather than a solid reconsideration of her less-than-privileged Liverpudlian childhood, her career as a top-notch barrister, her “marriage of equals” to the man who would and did become prime minister, and her failures and successes as a working mother, she prefers to bolster her own ego and polish her husband’s reputation at the expense of what could have been a fascinating memoir. From Booklist Blair, wife of former B
Now, she gives a complete account of her own life--an astonishing journey for a woman whose unconventional childhood was full of drama and who grew up with a fierce sense of justice. But when Labour took power in 1997, she faced new challenges: her husband was the first Prime Minister in recent history with a young family, and Cherie was the first PM's wife with a serious career. Abandoned by her actorfather, she overcame obstacles to become one of the UK's most successful barristers. She writes about her encounters with scores of foreign leaders and her friendships with Presidents Clinton and Bush, as well as with Hillary and Laura. Even if she hadn't married Tony Blair, Che