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How To Be Right

… in a world gone wrong

Author: James O'Brien  

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James O'Brien - runaway talk show sensation - with a provocative guide to dismantling small minds and conquering prejudice.

The voice of reason in a world that won't shut up.

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Every day, James O'Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers at the EU and feminists for destroying Britain.

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James O'Brien - runaway talk show sensation - with a provocative guide to dismantling small minds and conquering prejudice.

The voice of reason in a world that won't shut up.

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Every day, James O'Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers at the EU and feminists for destroying Britain.

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James O'Brien - runaway talk show sensation - with a provocative guide to dismantling small minds and conquering prejudice.The voice of reason in a world that won't shut up.The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the Parliamentary Book AwardsEvery day, James O'Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers at the EU and feminists for destroying Britain. But what makes James's daily LBC show such essential listening - and has made James a standout social media star - is the incisive way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning.In the bestselling How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with unchallenged opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards.If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or corporate cronies, this book is your conversation survival guide.

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Critic Reviews

“"This book is required reading to slice through the rhetoric, slogans & bluster of politics and politicians. James is the broadcaster we need right now , setting the world to rights one call at a time" - Susanna Reid -”

O’Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair. -- The Guardian
O’Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair. -- The Guardian
James O’Brien has become the conscience of liberal Britain New Statesman
Almost indecently enjoyable -- Robert Webb
I know few broadcasters as consistently, forensically, brilliant as James O’ Brien. Here, he shows us -- with empathy, edge and exquisite comedy -- how it happens -- Emily Maitlis
In the age of the tweet, such verbal ability increasingly seems like a superpower The Times
A simply brilliant read ... I love this book! -- Jamie Oliver
A total joy. If you feel like the world is going to hell in a handcart, here's the brakes -- Caitlin Moran
This book is required reading to slice through the rhetoric, slogans & bluster of politics and politicians. James is the broadcaster we need right now, setting the world to rights one call at a time -- Susanna Reid
Funny, clever and alarming ... a modern day travelogue through the airwaves with all the mistrust, misinformation, contradictions and manipulation laid bare -- Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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About the Author

James O'Brien is an award-winning writer and broadcaster whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror. His daily current affairs programme on LBC is the most popular talk show on commercial radio with over 1.4 million weekly listeners and his first book, How To Be Right, was a Sunday Times bestseller, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Political Book by a non-politician. He is often to be found on Twitter trying not to get into arguments unless absolutely necessary.

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Product Details

Publisher
Ebury Publishing | W H Allen
Published
30th May 2019
Pages
240
ISBN
9780753553121

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