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Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones Hardcover – 18 Aug. 2008
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Just who does David Cameron think he is? In an engaging series of landmark interviews – that will define the would-be prime minister ahead of the next election – Dylan Jones finds out.
David Cameron is asking you for the keys to Number Ten - but is he a smartly-dressed smoothie with all the right lines, or a gifted politician who instinctively understands the country's priorities? A throwback to the age when privilege brought power, or a dynamic alternative to a Labour party that has run out of ideas?
Award-winning journalist Dylan Jones set out to answer these questions in a series of wide-ranging and candid interviews that will define David Cameron ahead of the next election - and for years to come. A book about a politician for people who don't buy books about politicians, Cameron on Cameron will for many settle the question of whether David Cameron has got what it takes to lead the country.
What Cameron thinks may soon become what Britain does - and Jones teases out the details of Cameron's positions on the big issues. From the Iraq war to our friendship with America, from education to immigration, Cameron on Cameron will make for an unprecendented view into a politician's world and a document of practical use in our democracy.
From the Conservative party's bouts of vicious internal backstabbing to Cameron's marriage to Samantha - and their struggles to cope with the disabilities of their son Ivan - Cameron on Cameron lays bare the forces which shape the man who may succeed Gordon Brown before the decade is out.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date18 Aug. 2008
- Dimensions16 x 3.2 x 22.8 cm
- ISBN-100007285361
- ISBN-13978-0007285365
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"Dylan Jones has had the sort of access of which most political journalists can only dream, and brings to his subject formidable writing talent, wit and wisdom. This is an important book and a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the man who would be prime minister" - Matthew d'Ancona, editor of The Spectator
"Dylan Jones is truly a polymath, a man equally at home discussing the merits of Arne Jacobsen as the appeal of David Cameron. As a writer, he has an effortless style with an erring instinct for the absurd and the noteworthy” - Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent
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Dylan Jones is the editor of GQ magazine and a regular columnist for the Independent and the Mail on Sunday. He has won six British Society of Magazine Editors awards, and written and edited a variety of books, most notably a personal history of Apple, iPod Therefore I Am, and the international best-selling biography, Jim Morrison: Dark Star. Formerly an editor at i-D, The Face, Arena, The Observer and The Sunday Times, he was also the Chairman of the BSME in 1995 and the Chairman of Fashion Rocks Monaco, for the Prince's Trust
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- Publisher : Fourth Estate; First Edition (18 Aug. 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0007285361
- ISBN-13 : 978-0007285365
- Dimensions : 16 x 3.2 x 22.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 2,095,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dylan Jones studied at Chelsea School Of Art and then St. Martin’s School of Art. He is the award-winning editor of GQ magazine, a position he has held since 1999, and has won the British Society of Magazine Editors “Editor of the Year” award a record ten times. In 2013 he was also the recipient of the prestigious Mark Boxer Award.
Under his editorship the magazine has won over 50 awards.
A former editor at i-D, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times, he is the author of the New York Times best seller Jim Morrison: Dark Star, the much-translated iPod, Therefore I Am and Mr. Jones’ Rules, as well as the editor of the classic collection of music writing, Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy. He edited a collection of journalism from Arena - Sex, Power & Travel - and collaborated with David Cameron on Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones (shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year).
He was the Chairman of the Prince’s Trust’s Fashion Rocks Monaco, is a board member of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and a Trustee of the Hay Festival. He is also the chairman of London Fashion Week: Men’s, London’s first men’s fashion week, launched in 2012 at the behest of the British Fashion Council.
In 2010 he spent a week in Afghanistan with the Armed Forces, collaborating on a book with the photographer David Bailey: British Heroes in Afghanistan.
In 2012 he had three books published: The Biographical Dictionary of Music; When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie and Four Minutes that Shook the World, and the official book of U2’s 360 Tour, published in October. Since then he has published
The Eighties: One Day One Decade, a book about the 1980s told through the prism of Live Aid, Elvis Has Left The Building: The Day The King Died, Mr. Mojo, London Rules, a polemic about the greatest city in the world, Manxiety and London Sartorial.
In June 2013 he was awarded an OBE for services to publishing and the fashion industry. In 2014 he was made an Honorary Professor of Glasgow Caledonian University.
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On the other hand, Dylan Jones was unabashedly sycophantic, increasingly so towards the end when (because?) Cameron is ahead in the polls. So I enjoyed hearing from David Cameron, but not so much the author of this book!
I can't say that this book massively changed my view on the last of these points, but it has changed my view on the others.
Cameron's main policy ideas - social responsibility, strengthening the family unit, reforming prisons and welfare - are all in this book, even if they're not detailed massively. He puts strong emphasis on the family, saying it is the root of our social problems, and that he believes in offering incentives for families to stay together (as recently detailed in Iain Duncan Smith's proposals regarding a three month probation period prior to divorce) rather than simply imposing a piece of legislation, such as ASBOs, in an attempt to reduce youth disaffection, knife crime and gun crime.
He also gets onto prison reform, but doesn't really enlighten us as to how he plans to reform prisons, preferring instead to lay into Brown and Blair's prison system.
Other areas touched on are Britain's transport infrastructure, immigration and multi-culturalism (which Cameron believes need reigning in), Europe and the rich-poor divide (which Cameron, somewhat unrealistically, believes can be reduced by helping those at the bottom to better themselves, while leaving the rich alone to get on with getting richer).
While there is some straight-talking here, the author Dylan Jones is very much a paid up Conservative, and doesn't grill Cameron as thoroughly as an independent journalist would. Cameron's time in PR, as he admits in the book, turned him into something of an accomplished liar (or bender of the truth) and Jones lets him get away with this on numerous occasions.
Jones also spends a lot of his pre-amble to each chapter donning his rose-tinted spectacles and eulogising Cameron, or laying into Gordon Brown. I never expected this book to be anything but pro-Cameron, but I would have liked a bit more journalistic balance.
Still, it provided some insight into his policies, and only strengthened my belief that he is destined to be Britain's next PM. For anyone interested in politics, or Cameron, this is a worthwhile and easy read.
The only review on the dust cover is from the Editor of "The Spectator" who thinks it is an "important book" and essential reading, a "must read". No change then.
The book is not a political tract and - in many ways - is quite light; I found that a little disappointing but it was good to see he was trying to humanise himself for those in the electorate who might read it, his intended audience rather than "political heavyweights". Not everyone has had the benefits of an Oxbridge life and its rarified air.
It does give details of social responsibility, the family unit, reforming prisons and welfare, national transport, crime, multi-culturalism and all the major issues. This is snorkelling rather than deep-sea diving but at least it wets the feet.
I did emerge with a greater appreciation of the Prime Minister but, as I watch him wrestling with one of the major issues which has damaged so many Prime Ministers, our relationship to Europse and the Eurozone, I know having the policies is all very well but, when the front door opens, there is a real world out there.
how he lie to all of use that why he lost he's job did nt in joy his book at all