{"product_id":"pearls-of-cut-price-bonar-thompson-trevor-blake-ed-copy","title":"Pearls of Cut Price | Bonar Thompson \u0026 Trevor Blake (ed)","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by mogtus-sanlux\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 978-1-944651-40-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e$16.50\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6 x 9\", 180 pp., paperback, matte cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It can be laid down as an axiom — I say it in all humility — that the man or woman who has never heard me speak has failed in life.” — Bonar Thompson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Black Hat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBonar Thompson belonged to that noble and nearly extinct order: the public nuisance with a vocabulary. He was a Hyde Park orator, pamphleteer, editor, broadcaster, performer, and political stray dog, equally capable of haranguing the crowd and mocking the kind of men who believe crowds make them important.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePearls of Cut Price\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of three balanced collections of Thompson’s writings, edited and introduced by Trevor Blake. These volumes are not arranged as a solemn course of instruction. They may be read separately, together, backward, or according to whatever system best flatters the reader’s intelligence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere are Thompson’s barbs, boasts, arguments, recollections, and printed mischief: the work of a man too theatrical to be a mere theorist and too intelligent to be only an eccentric. His subject is politics, but his deeper quarry is vanity—especially the vanity of reformers, bosses, patriots, believers, unbelievers, and everyone who thinks mankind is only one committee away from salvation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlso available as part of a discounted three-volume Bonar Thompson bundle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"127 House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52404621967643,"sku":null,"price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0040\/0461\/0117\/files\/photo_2026-06-25_21-29-37_75253302-d7be-4270-8099-5ec584531979.jpg?v=1782476357","url":"https:\/\/underworldamusements.com\/products\/pearls-of-cut-price-bonar-thompson-trevor-blake-ed-copy","provider":"Underworld Amusements","version":"1.0","type":"link"}