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* [[Labour Party]]
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==Bibliography==
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===Biographies===
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*Abse, Leo.  ''Tony Blair: The Man Behind the Smile.''  (2001); nasty attack from the Old Left.
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*Beckett F, Hencke D. ''The Survivor: Tony Blair in Peace and War .'' (2006) prize winning book by investigative journalists
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*Naughtie, James.  ''The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency.''  (2001); [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21050-2004Sep14.html Interview in ''The Washington Post.'']]
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*Riddell, Peter. ''The Unfulfilled Prime Minister: Tony Blair and the End of Optimism.'' (2004)
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*Seldon, Anthony. ''Blair.''  (2004) [http://www.cerium.ca/article944.html#ouverture "Tony Blair in History"]
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*Stephens, Philip. ''Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader.'' (2004) by a senior editor of The ''Financial Times.'' Review [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5037/is_200402/ai_n18261022 Argues that for Blair, "ending the tyranny in Iraq was a moral cause fully in accord with the teachings on just wars of Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas."
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* Temple, Michael. ''Blair'' (British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century) (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Blair-British-Prime-Ministers-Century/dp/1904950736/ref=sr_1_2/104-1795140-9172706?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186882938&sr=8-2 excerpt online]
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==Scholarly studies==
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* Bevir, Mark and Rhodes, R. A. W. (2006) "Prime Ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens." ''Political Studies''  54:671-90. Issn 0032-3217 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]
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* Bartle, John, and Anthony King. ''Britain at the Polls, 2005'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Britain-Polls-2005/dp/1933116633/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195375016&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
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* Fielding, Steven. ''The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of New Labour.'' (2003) argues the Labour Party under Blair has been faithful to its past, and represents "traditional values in a modern setting."
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* Foley, Michael. ''John Major, Tony Blair and a Conflict of Leadership: Collision Course.'' Manchester University Press, 212 pp. (2003)
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* Foley, Michael. ''The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership'' (2001)
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* Gardner, Lloyd C. "'Damned High Wire,' on the Special Relationship That Unites Bush and Blair in Iraq." ''Journal of Transatlantic Studies''  (2005) 3(1 Supplement):43-62. Issn: 1479-4012 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]
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* Giddens, Anthony. ''The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy'' (1998)  [http://www.amazon.com/Third-Way-Renewal-Democracy-European/dp/0745622674/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195375436&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search], by influential advisor to Blair
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* Hill, Paul T. "Lessons from Blair's School Reforms." ''Policy Review,'' No. 131, 2005. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5012121395 online edition]
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* Jones, Nicholas. ''Sultans of Spin: The Media and the New Labour Government''. (2000)
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* King, Anthony, ed. ''New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls.'' (1998) , 259pp. political science [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=87571616 online edition]
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* King, Anthony, ed. ''Britain at the Polls: 2001'' (2001)
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* Needham, Catherine. "Brand Leaders: Clinton, Blair and the Limitations of the Permanent Campaign." ''Political Studies''  (2005) 53:343-61. Issn: 0032-3217 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]
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* Norton, Bruce F. ''Politics in Britain'' (2007) textbook [http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Britain-Bruce-F-Norton/dp/0871879247/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195375016&sr=8-13 excerpt and text search]
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* Reitan, Earl A. ''The Thatcher Revolution: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair, and the Transformation of Modern Britain, 1979-2001.'' (2003)  260 pp.
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* Rubinstein, David. ''The Labour Party and British Society: 1880-2005.'' (2005)  228 pp.
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* Williams, Paul. ''British Foreign Policy under New Labour'' (2006) 288pp
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* Wilson, Graham K. "A Blair Era? The Political Order of Modern Britain," ''The Forum'' (2007) Vol. 5#3, Article 2. [http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol5/iss3/art2 online edition]
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* Wither, James K. "British Bulldog or Bush's Poodle? Anglo-American Relations and the Iraq War," ''Parameters,'' Vol. 33, 2003  [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002396235 online edition]
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==Primary sources==
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* King, Anthony, ed. ''British Political Opinion 1937-2000: The Gallup Polls''  (2001)
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===Memoirs===
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*Campbell, Alastair (2007) ''The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries.'' Knopf, ISBN 0307268314. By the controversial Press Secretary to Tony Blair.
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*Gould, Philip (1999) ''The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party.'' Abacus, ISBN 0-349-11177-4.
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==External links==
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* [http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9149782  ''The Economist'' "Tony Blair: How will history judge him?" leader published May 10th 2007  online]
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2007/blair_years/default.stm The Blair Years 1997-2007] - BBC articles covering major events of Tony Blair's premiership, with analysis.
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*[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/tony_blair/index.html The New York Times] - Includes short biography and links to ''NY Times'' articles relating to Tony Blair.
    
==References==
 
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