What makes politicians tick? This is the question Jeremy Paxman seeks to answer in this rigorous and highly entertaining dissection of the species of men and women who seek to govern us. Covering the full political spectrum and interviewing the great and not-so good, Paxman delves deeply into the minds of politicians past and present to provide us with a thorough analysis of what they want, why they do it, what they belive in (apart from themselves) and what they really get out of it.

Not normally the sort of book I read, but I quite enjoyed this. I found it to be insightful and humourous and as I read I could almost hear Paxman talking as if he were in the room with me.