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Alastair Campbell's diaries provide a fascinating front row seat to the daily drama of the Blair premiership. American readers will be intrigued by Blair's relations with the Clintons, with Bush post 9/11, with Condi, Cheney, Powell, Princess Diana and the Queen. <br>--Tina Brown, author of The Diana Chronicles <br> Beyond question the most important and revelatory book so far written about the inner workings of Blair's government . . . By turns arrogant, brilliant, combative, demotic and emotional, Campbell delivers his impressions and verdicts in a wholly committed, staccato style. It is an earthy account of life in the Blair government's 24/7 media-centric world. <br>- The Washington Post Book World <br> The Blair Years is a classic text of the you-are-there school of politics at work. Surely a valuable source for scholars to scour for many years to come, it is available here and now as one of the most compelling reads of history in the raw . . . The diaries provide a be

Alastair Campbell's diaries provide a fascinating front row seat to the daily drama of the Blair premiership. American readers will be intrigued by Blair's relations with the Clintons, with Bush post 9/11, with Condi, Cheney, Powell, Princess Diana and the Queen. <br>--Tina Brown, author of The Diana Chronicles <br> Beyond question the most important and revelatory book so far written about the inner workings of Blair's government . . . By turns arrogant, brilliant, combative, demotic and emotional, Campbell delivers his impressions and verdicts in a wholly committed, staccato style. It is an earthy account of life in the Blair government's 24/7 media-centric world. <br>- The Washington Post Book World <br> The Blair Years is a classic text of the you-are-there school of politics at work. Surely a valuable source for scholars to scour for many years to come, it is available here and now as one of the most compelling reads of history in the raw . . . The diaries provide a behind-the-scenes look at dramatic junctures in recent history. <br>- Los Angeles Times<br> <br>Reviews from Britain: <br> This is a brilliant, absorbing account . . . Vivid, direct, immediate, and honest in its way, the diary draws you into a world for which 'evil' is hardly too strong a word . . . Rich in detail, powerful in mood, honest within its own lights, it is the more intriguing for the dark and often unspoken presence, at its core, of a mystery: the Master, Blair . . . These diaries will be gasped at, and relied upon, for decades to come. Buy them: they will suck you in. <br>- The Times <br> This is a riveting, compelling and genuinely revelatory book . . . The Campbell that comes across in thesediaries is certainly a complex and interesting character: . . . engagingly frank, with a winning line in black humour, a certain blokeish faux-naivety when faced with an array of international statesmen and an unrivalled understanding of how the tabloid press works. <br>- The Sunday Times <br> <br> There are fascinating details and revelatory nuggets . . . Campbell brings back to vivid and gripping life the night that Diana died [and] when Nato was losing public opinion over Kosovo. <br>- The Observer <br> Electric . . . Campbell is a first-rate diarist [with] a very acute eye for the telling detail . . . He has a novelist's ability to reveal character through a close study of behaviour and-rare in a political diarist-an artist's understanding that it is the smallest things which reveal the most . . . The portrait of Tony Blair is by turns endearing and unnervingly frightening . . . This is a perfect piece of diary-writing: eagle-eyed, gossipy, funny. <br>- Mail on Sunday <br>

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