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The White House originally estimated the Iraq war would cost 50 billion dollars. However, in his new book, the Nobel Prize-winning economist JOSEPH STIGLITZ puts this figure at three trillion dollars and counting. He asks how the government could have underestimated the cost of the war so spectacularly and what price the US and the world is paying for this miscalculation. The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, co-written with Linda Bilmes, is published by Allen Lane.
With nine months to go before a successor to George W Bush is elected, critics are already clamouring to provide an account of his dramatic time in office. Writer and political commentator JACOB WEISBERG unpicks the presidency in terms of a psychological battle between father and son, asking how Bush 43 has defined himself in response to the failures and accomplishments of Bush 41. The Bush Tragedy: The Unmaking of a President is published by Bloomsbury.
Self-confessed Thatcher protégé MICHAEL PORTILLO charts the rise and fall of his mentor Mrs Thatcher, and explores the long shadow she has cast over the Conservative Party. The successors she nominated fell one by one. Is David Cameron the first to break free of her legacy? Portillo On Thatcher: The Lady’s Not For Spurning will be broadcast on BBC Four at 8.00pm on Monday 25 February.
William Wordsworth did not wander ‘lonely as a cloud’; beside him, scribbling down his every word, was Dorothy, his beloved sister, collaborator and muse. The writer FRANCES WILSON charts the life of this often overlooked figure and asks what Dorothy’s own writings reveal about her intense relationship with William. The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth is published by Faber and Faber.
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