{"product_id":"you-cant-please-all-isbn-9781804290903","title":"You Can't Please All","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new memoir from renowned political activist and author of \u003ci\u003eStreet Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe revolutionary upsurge of 1968–1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out. What happened after is the subject of \u003ci\u003eYou Can’t Please All\u003c\/i\u003e. Tariq Ali recounts a life committed to writing and cultural interventions. An eyewitness in Moscow to the fall of the Soviet Union, he was caught up in the intellectual excitement that had gripped the country. In Porto Alegre, Hugo Chávez invited him to visit Caracas, and the two men developed a striking friendship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost-2001, as a founding member of the Stop the War Coalition, he became a fierce critic of the War on Terror, visiting many US cities with surprising regularity to engage in debate and discussion, inaugurating a new phase of political activism. Evident in his work is the integral part politics plays in his life. He is one of the most sought-after socialist and anti-imperialist public intellectuals on most continents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderlying the narrative is a chain of anecdotes, reflections, jottings and storytelling. The book explores his work for the theatre and film, as well as his fiction, including the acclaimed Islam Quintet. There are pen portraits of friends and comrades such as Edward Said, Derek Jarman, Richard Ingrams, Benazir Bhutto, Mary-Kay Wilmers, and the intellectuals who founded and relaunched New Left Review: E. P. Thompson, Perry Anderson and Robin Blackburn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book also contains a moving family portrait, describing how his parents met and lived during the early years of Pakistan.\u003ci\u003ePreface: Being in the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChronology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Spy Cops – On Being Spied On for Fifty Years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBOOK I: THE END OF THE CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Before the Fall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Southall 1979\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Thatcher Consensus\u003cbr\u003e 3. Farewell to the Fourth\u003cbr\u003e 4. Off to India\u003cbr\u003e 5. CLR\u003cbr\u003e 6. ‘We Have an Editor!’\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bandung File\u003cbr\u003e 8. Private Eye\u003cbr\u003e 9. Russia\u003cbr\u003e 10. Moscow Gold\u003cbr\u003e 11. Disrupting Heavenly Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Friends and Comrades\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Jarman\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ho Chi Minh\u003cbr\u003e 14. At M-K’s\u003cbr\u003e 15. Gott and the Guardian\u003cbr\u003e 16. Ernest Mandel\u003cbr\u003e 17. Saving the Review\u003cbr\u003e 18. Collateral Damage\u003cbr\u003e 19. Art of Spying\u003cbr\u003e 20. Renewals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBOOK II: A FAMILY INTERLUDE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The ‘Noble and Warlike’ Khattars of Wah\u003cbr\u003e Family Origins\u003cbr\u003e Family Life\u003cbr\u003e A Family in Jeopardy\u003cbr\u003e My Father\u003cbr\u003e Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBOOK III: THE PROLONGED TWENTIETH CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A New Millennium\u003cbr\u003e Iraq at the Centre of the World\u003cbr\u003e So Was It Worth It?\u003cbr\u003e Mojitos in Pyongyang\u003cbr\u003e The Boulder Interview: Palestine and Israel (2004)\u003cbr\u003e Remembering Edward Said\u003cbr\u003e Was Hugo Chávez Murdered?\u003cbr\u003e Havana Diary (2005)\u003cbr\u003e Al Jazeera, Al Bolivar, Telesur\u003cbr\u003e Fellow Traveller: Oliver Stone\u003cbr\u003e In War There Is a Need for Translators\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Case against Tony Blair\u003cbr\u003e The Family Miliband\u003cbr\u003e The New Left Review at Fifty\u003cbr\u003e The Charlie Hebdo Massacre\u003cbr\u003e With Satyajit Ray\u003cbr\u003e The Bhuttos of Larkana\u003cbr\u003e A Painter of His Time\u003cbr\u003e Casteism\u003cbr\u003e Come Dancing\u003cbr\u003e The New Adventures of Don Quixote\u003cbr\u003e English Questions\u003cbr\u003e The End of Cricket?\u003cbr\u003e Kings and Queens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBOOK IV: JOTTINGS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Homage to Lu Xun\u003cbr\u003e Parchment Does Burn (1989)\u003cbr\u003e My Dinner with Mambety (1995)\u003cbr\u003e Better Red than Wed (1996)\u003cbr\u003e A Man without Instincts (1997)\u003cbr\u003e Marx on Suicide (2001)\u003cbr\u003e Al Jazeera (2002)\u003cbr\u003e In Tripoli (2006)\u003cbr\u003e Diyarbakir (2006)\u003cbr\u003e Return to Cochabamba (2007)\u003cbr\u003e Murder in the Family (2008)\u003cbr\u003e The Nobel War Prize (2010)\u003cbr\u003e Against the Extreme Centre (2011)\u003cbr\u003e Blitz Spirit: Alex Cockburn (2011)\u003cbr\u003e Pissing on Insurgents (2012)\u003cbr\u003e Lincoln in His Lover’s Nightgown (2012)\u003cbr\u003e ‘Indian Army Rape Us’ (2013)\u003cbr\u003e Ships in the Night (2013)\u003cbr\u003e A Tear Gas Canister, Made in Brazil, Used in Turkey (2013)\u003cbr\u003e Gaza: A Disgrace to the World (2014)\u003cbr\u003e Benedict Anderson: An Irishman Abroad (2015)\u003cbr\u003e The Quintet (1992–2016)\u003cbr\u003e Mr Ford’s Hacienda (2018)\u003cbr\u003e ‘I’m Glad Edward Said Is Dead’ (2022)\u003cbr\u003e Adieu Boris, Adieu (2022)\u003cbr\u003e Worstward Ho (2022)\u003cbr\u003e Celebrations (2023)\u003cbr\u003e A Missed Churchill Footnote (2023)\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: The Dying Palestinian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Ashes of Gaza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Hitchens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vintage Ali: literate rabble-rousing mixed with entertaining sniping, smart aperçus, and endless provocations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Entertaining, politically engaged ... a superbly bracing world tour.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stuart Jeffries, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating reading ... an autobiography that matters.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chris Bambery, \u003ci\u003eCounterfire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ali can be refreshingly funny, gossipy and personable, just the activist you would want to sit down and have a chat with ... a great new year read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Steven Andrew, \u003ci\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A great read ... [Ali] has always got something insightful and interesting to say.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dave Kellaway, \u003ci\u003eAnti-Capitalist Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] glimpse of the perils and benefits of being one of the world’s best-known left-wing activists and intellectuals\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Andy Beckett, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To escape ... with your principles mostly intact, your rage undimmed – that too is a kind of virtue, and its own monument.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James Robins, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Ali's] range is extraordinary, moving from muck-raking exposures to Marxist theory; from boisterous satire to a sweet and gentle humour on his parents’ romantic elopement ... a joy to read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sheila Rowbotham, \u003ci\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tariq Ali is in a league of his own as a public intellectual and Marxist political activist with special expertise in South Asia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He has more than a knack for making his own fascination with a subject contagious... Ali has maintained a kind of immutable persona but a mind that can’t stay still. Autobiography is a topic terrifically suited to his many gifts.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alan Wald, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTariq Ali \u003c\/b\u003ehas written more than two-dozen books on world history and politics—the most recent of which are \u003ci\u003eThe Extreme Centre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dilemmas of Lenin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Forty-Year War in Afghanistan, Winston Churchill\u003c\/i\u003e—as well as the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and screen. 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