The Conservatives - A History - Hardcover

"Astute, opinionated and unsentimental, Harris makes a robust and entertaining guide to the party's history" (Dominic Sandbrook The Sunday Times)

"Robin Harris combines a career of working for the party with the qualifications of a historian. He also writes beautifully, with a perilous sharpness. His account is highly entertaining" (Charles Moore Daily Telegraph)

"A marvel of concision, lucidity and scholarship, with penetrating things to say about Peel, Disraeli, Churchill and the rest. His book can be read for pleasure as well as instruction" (Andrew Gimson Spectator)

"Harris has come close to producing a classic of popular history... the effect is sometimes dazzling. [He has] an enviable ability to grasp the essence of the characters" (London Review of Books)

"Highly readable, with sparkling portraits of the leading figures, and the author's acerbic observations and pithy judgments, even when one does not agree with them, are always thought-provoking and sometimes pointed enough to make one laugh out loud... this is a good book. I am glad that it was written. And I'm glad that I read it" (Daniel Finkelstein The Times)

"Harris writes well and with considerable force" (Douglas Hurd New Statesman)

"My expectations for this book were high; but Dr. Harris has exceeded them. This book is genuine history written with real authority... finely written and highly readable, with an undercurrent of dry wit running through its narrative" (Conservative Home website)

"Incisive and entertaining" (Kwasi Kwarteng Saturday Telegraph)

"So enjoyable to read" (James Forsyth Mail on Sunday)

"This well-researched, highly readable and occasionally highly witty account should become the new standard history of the Tory Party, and required reading for all MPs" (Andrew Roberts Standpoint)