{"product_id":"2026200012547-secondhand-reading-from-left-to-right-one-mans-political-history","title":"Reading From Left To Right: One Man's Political History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life spent wrestling with the great ideological currents of the twentieth century finds vivid and unflinching expression in Reading from Left to Right: One Man's Political History, the memoir of H.S. Ferns — scholar, economist, and intellectual maverick. Born into a world shaped by the twin forces of socialism and liberal democracy, Ferns chronicles his own remarkable political evolution, from youthful communist sympathies through to a mature, independent conservatism, all set against the turbulent backdrop of mid-century British and Canadian academic life. With a foreword by the celebrated journalist Malcolm Muggeridge — himself no stranger to ideological disillusionment — the book arrives with a stamp of intellectual kinship that immediately signals its candour and wit.\n\nFerns writes with the precision of an academic and the self-awareness of a man who has watched his own convictions crumble and reform under the pressure of lived experience, producing a narrative that is as much a history of ideas as it is a personal confession. His prose is sharp, unsparing, and at times darkly comic, capturing the seductive pull of utopian politics and the slow, sometimes painful, process of shedding them. Rooted in the great tradition of political autobiography — alongside works by Koestler, Muggeridge, and Orwell — this memoir stands as a vital document of twentieth-century intellectual life, leaving the reader to ask: what does it mean to change your mind, and at what cost?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130945478875,"sku":"2026200012547-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/708fee29-2204-4401-b5b7-87ab766d0391.png?v=1786593111","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012547-secondhand-reading-from-left-to-right-one-mans-political-history","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}