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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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u80144 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230113163236.0 |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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170703s2017 enkafc 001 0aeng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780241275597 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
AU@ |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
AU@ |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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UK-LoPHL |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
920 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Patten, Christopher, |
| Titles and words associated with a name |
Baron Patten of Barnes, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1944- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
91122 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
First confession : |
| Remainder of title |
a sort of memoir / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Chris Patten. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Allen Lane, Penguin Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
311 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, portraits |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
still image |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight' and provide retrospective justification for their careers. That is not the case with this book. 'It occurred to me that to track down myself would enable me to discuss an issue that had begun to intrigue me, namely the relationship between politics and identity, the things that had shaped me and whether and how they had come to reflect my life and opinions. As I wrote, the question of identity moved from the wings to centre stage, and roiled politics and nations on both sides of the Atlantic.' 'Who am I? Who are we?' Chris Patten's career has taken him from the outer London suburbs to the House of Commons, a seat in the Cabinet, last Governor of Hong Kong, Chairman of the BBC and Chancellor of Oxford University. About all of these he is enlightening and entertaining. He has unexpected and telling things to say about each of the three Prime Ministers for whom he worked - Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major. But his political heroes - Baldwin, Macmillan, Butler - came from an earlier time: he is proud to be 'wet', and reckons all his paladins were pretty damp themselves. But more, Patten uses each phase of his life as a spur to reflect upon its contemporary situation - education, America, conservatism, Ireland, China, Europe and finally the question of links between violence and religion. Unlike one No.10 press secretary, Patten definitely 'does God'. At the end, the reader has an impression of someone who knows himself as well as any of us can, and who continues to think, passionately and intelligently, about the world around him. Wise, funny and opinionated, First Confession is a different sort of memoir, a meditation on personal and political identity which, in an age of simplification, reminds us of the complexities of both. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Patten, Christopher, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name |
Baron Patten of Barnes, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1944- |
| 9 (RLIN) |
91122 |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Great Britain. |
| Subordinate unit |
Parliament. |
| -- |
House of Commons. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
48 |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Conservative Party (Great Britain) |
| 9 (RLIN) |
646 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Politicians |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
Biography. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
42890 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Hong Kong (China) |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
21937 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Hong Kong (China) |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16690 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Suppress in OPAC |
Do not suppress in OPAC |