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‘There’s more to it than sugar and spice or slugs and snails’
Posted on 2011/02/14 in General, tagged as
The paperback edition of Delusions of Gender, published earlier this month, is reviewed by the Independent on Sunday. ‘Dense with research, and backed up by extensive footnotes (which are, slightly annoyingly, all at the back), it debunks bad science and shows how gender stereotypes and gender behaviour are mutually reinforcing to an alarming degree. Girls do measurably worse in maths tests, for example, when they are told that boys do better. Th… Read more »
‘Will the new US-Russian arms treaty blunt the nuclear threat?’
Posted on 2011/02/11 in General, tagged as
Dead Hand author David Hoffman writes in the Independent today about why it’ll take much more than a treaty to end the atomic age. Here’s the full piece.
David Hoffman at the University of Birmingham – video
Posted on 2011/02/11 in General, tagged as
Here’s David Hoffman – author of The Dead Hand – giving the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture at the University of Birmingham earlier this week:
David Hoffman tonight at the University of Birmingham
Posted on 2011/02/09 in General, tagged as
David Hoffman, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dead Hand, will be talking at the University of Birmingham’s Business School Lecture Theatre tonight. It’s free and starts at 6.00pm. More details are here on the Waterstones’ website. David is in the UK for only a very short time, and is doing just one further event after tonight, at St Anthony’s College in Oxford tomorrow. See our Events page for more details.
David Hoffman talks about The Dead Hand
Posted on 2011/02/08 in General, tagged as
And for more, David was also on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, discussing his book with John Humphreys, to which you can listen again here. Read more about his book here.
The Dead Hand is the Book of the Week at the Book Depository
Posted on 2011/02/07 in General, tagged as
David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand is Book of the Week at online retailer The Book Depository. ‘What sets THE DEAD HAND apart from other Cold War history books is that it tells the story from both sides, East and West. It is also based on new information from inside the Kremlin, including a lot of new material on Gorbachev’s difficult decisions’ Read the full piece here.
David Hoffman on RTE’s Pat Kenny show NOW!
Posted on 2011/02/07 in General, tagged as
David Hoffman – author of The Dead Hand – is being interviewed on Irish radio at this very moment. If you’re not in Ireland you can listen in via their website here.
‘A fascinating narrative of the last phase of the cold war and the era of Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika’
Posted on 2011/02/07 in General, tagged as
The Sunday Times Culture section have given David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand a great review, arguing its continuing relevance for today . Reviewer Max Hastings says that ‘the abiding impression left by the author’s narrative is of the fog of ignorance that shrouded the leaders of the most powerful nations on earth as they dealt with each other…But terrible weapons are still out there, and so is a morbid mistrust between the great powers, which lie… Read more »
‘A magisterial, human, vividly readable account of a remarkable time’
Posted on 2011/02/05 in General, tagged as
Peter Preston reviews The Dead Hand for the Guardian today. It’s not just a history, though, he says: ‘As Hoffman weaves in the story of how the Soviet Union, through its covert Biopreparat agency, secretly went on with massive research into germ warfare long after Richard Nixon and the west had abandoned it, he enters a chill caveat. Gorbachev may or may not have known what was going on. Yeltsin certainly didn’t. There was no command and no cont… Read more »
‘But for the first time in generations there is now a real and legitimate fear that the British promise will be broken and the next generation will have fewer opportunities and find it harder to get on than the last.’
Posted on 2011/02/04 in General, tagged as
This isn’t (explicitly at least) another endorsement for Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation, but an excerpt from a speech to be made later today by the Labour leader Ed Miliband. It looks like the Jilted… message is starting to be discussed right at the top. If you haven’t read this seminal book – the read especially if you’re a younger person worried about your future – now is the time.
