The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries Of A Cabinet Minister By The Right Hon. James Hacker Mp
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the polished doors of Whitehall lies a battlefield of euphemism, evasion, and exquisite bureaucratic sabotage — and The Complete Yes Minister grants readers a ringside seat to the finest political comedy ever committed to print. Presented as the meticulously edited diaries of the hapless yet endearing Cabinet Minister, the Right Honourable James Hacker MP, this omnibus edition chronicles his perpetual, losing struggle against the formidable Sir Humphrey Appleby, a Permanent Secretary of almost supernatural cunning, whose sole mission appears to be ensuring that nothing — absolutely nothing — ever actually gets done. Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay craft a work of savage satirical precision, dissecting the machinery of British government with a scalpel disguised as a punchline. The result is a text that operates simultaneously as riotous comedy and as a genuinely insightful treatise on the nature of political power, institutional inertia, and the vast chasm between democratic intention and bureaucratic reality. Originally the basis for the landmark BBC television series, the written form allows the authors' wit to breathe and expand, revealing layers of irony that reward the careful reader. Whether one approaches it as a lover of sharp political satire or as a student of how power truly operates, this volume leaves one wondering — who is really in charge?
Author: Jonathan Lynn And Antony Jay
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, BBC Books
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the polished doors of Whitehall lies a battlefield of euphemism, evasion, and exquisite bureaucratic sabotage — and The Complete Yes Minister grants readers a ringside seat to the finest political comedy ever committed to print. Presented as the meticulously edited diaries of the hapless yet endearing Cabinet Minister, the Right Honourable James Hacker MP, this omnibus edition chronicles his perpetual, losing struggle against the formidable Sir Humphrey Appleby, a Permanent Secretary of almost supernatural cunning, whose sole mission appears to be ensuring that nothing — absolutely nothing — ever actually gets done. Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay craft a work of savage satirical precision, dissecting the machinery of British government with a scalpel disguised as a punchline. The result is a text that operates simultaneously as riotous comedy and as a genuinely insightful treatise on the nature of political power, institutional inertia, and the vast chasm between democratic intention and bureaucratic reality. Originally the basis for the landmark BBC television series, the written form allows the authors' wit to breathe and expand, revealing layers of irony that reward the careful reader. Whether one approaches it as a lover of sharp political satire or as a student of how power truly operates, this volume leaves one wondering — who is really in charge?