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One of her ten top books about Westminster politics, as shared at the Guardian:
Read about the other entries on the list.House of Cards by Michael Dobbs
It’s hard to remember now, but the book that became two television adaptations was prescient. Dobbs, a Conservative insider, foresaw the infighting that would come after the fall of Thatcher and then exaggerated it. Chief Whip Francis Urquhart’s utter villainy and a leavening of black humour made this story part of the landscape and the political language of our times.
--Marshal Zeringue