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PUBLICATIONS ON POLITICS, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND SOCIAL HISTORY
The Third Age of Broadcasting
Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), 1991
Proposals for reshaping British broadcasting to meet the challenges of
multi-channel programming.
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The Lockheed Papers
[USA: The Grease Machine
Jonathan Cape (UK) and Harper & Row (USA), 1978
How the biggest private defence contractor in the western world secured its
civil and military aircraft sales by billion-dollar bribery and corruption, from
the USA and Britain to the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Saudi-Arabia and
Japan. Tells who bribed whom, when, why, how much, and with what result.
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Ralph Nader wrote: “With literary discipline and dramatic force,
David Boulton documents the intensity of effort behind Lockheed’s ‘crimes in the
suites’... Shows convincingly that overseas bribery was bad for product quality,
bad for the enterprise system, bad for national security and, above all, illegal
in every country where it was conducted.”
Jeffrey Klein wrote: “The Grease Machine exhibits a keen
intelligence that leads the reader through a complex investigation... Future
generations will read it to understand who wielded power and where they went
awry. Then and now, it will certainly be in the core curriculum.”
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The Making of Tania Hearst
New English Library, 1975
Full account of the Patti Hearst story.
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The UVF, 1966-73: an Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion
Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1973
The first account of the origins and development of Ulster’s other private
armies - the “Loyalist” paramilitaries opposing both the IRA and the British
governments they saw as selling out their Protestant heritage. Focuses on the
Ulster Volunteer Force, the Ulster Defence Association, and the network of
secretive organisations inspired by the rhetoric of the Rev. Ian Paisley.
Robert Fisk wrote in The Times: “The classic account
of the rise of the Loyalist paramilitaries”.
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Objection Overruled
Macgibbon & Kee, 1967
A history of the campaign during the first world war to establish the rights of
conscientious objection to military service. Focuses on the work of the
No-Conscription Fellowship, Quaker peace groups and the resistance of individual
objectors. Bertrand Russell and Fenner Brockway - both leaders of the COs’
campaign - joined David Boulton in appealing for the letters, diaries and
personal recollections on which this now much sought-after book is
based, revealing the heroic origins of the modern peace movement.
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Voices from the Crowd: Against the H-Bomb (Editor)
Foreword by Michael Foot
Peter Owen, 1964
An anthology of essays by the first generation of pioneer campaigners against
nuclear weapons: Albert Schweitzer, J B Priestley, Bertrand Russell, Sir Herbert
Read, John Osborne, C Wright Mills, Philip Toynbee, Alex Comfort, Christopher
Logue, James Cameron, Marghanita Laski, Donald Soper, E P Thompson, Spike
Milligan and others.
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Jazz in Britain
W H Allen, 1958
The first comprehensive history of jazz in Britain, from the arrival in London
in 1912 of the Original American Ragtime Octette to the 1950s revival of “trad”
New Orleans jazz and skiffle. Now particularly sought after for its detailed
listings of British bands and musicians of the 1950s, and the developing
discography of British jazz in the early days of LPs.
Band leader Chris Barber wrote in a Foreword: “This book gave me
for the first time a great deal of information about the earlier attempts to
play jazz here... I thank David Boulton for uncovering so much of the
background... and also for his penetrating analysis of the present-day
situation.”
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