Adam, Helen, Andy and the Eye's book reviewer D.J.Taylor recommend the greatest political biographies ever written, from Louis XIV to Nadine Dorries via Chips Channon.
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Podcast hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.
My name's Andrew Hunter Murray, and I'm here in the private Eye office with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen, and DJ Taylor.
We are here for our summer culture special, specifically books.
Don't expect any opera or any film or anything else.
This is the book special.
You might be listening to this on a beach you might have brought with you.
Oh, I don't know, a Jack Reacher, a James Patterson, or maybe the diaries of chips Channon, let's hope, because this is page 94, we're going to be talking about political books.
DJ writes a lot of the reviews, although obviously we can't confirm which ones he does or doesn't write.
But DJ, you read a lot of political books as well as sort of one Direction memoirs and things in your line of work?
Well, I do, and it's quite interesting, because whenever I propose some kind of political tome for the eye, Ian Hislob always says, God, you're the only person I know who's in the least interested in this terrible, substandard, disappearing, disparage genre.
And I think there is a way in which the whole sort of atmosphere in which political memoirs or books about politics get written and received has changed over the last few decades.
I mean, there used to be big commercial propositions.