Our age, as Amis writes in his foreword, no longer believes in what he calls "the talent elite": "You can become rich without having any talent...
In a foreword to "No Enemies, No Hatred," the late Vaclav Havel observed that Charter 08 "articulated an alternative vision of China, challenging the official line that any decisions on reforms are the exclusive province of the state".
The book boasts a foreword by no less a luminary than Edmund White, who sees in Tagame's manga a "delicate, original and bold Japanese sense of rendering... brought to bear on pictures of cruelty, pain and bondage".
Mr. Bush wrote the foreword and offered no assessment of Mr. Obama's record, in keeping with his post-White House practice of not commenting on his successor.
The former president wrote the foreword and offered no assessment of Mr. Obama's record, in keeping with his post-White House practice of not commenting on his successor.
In the foreword, he wrote: "No one who has not experienced life on the wrong side of prison walls can understand this commitment, indeed a yearning, for a better, more liberal, more tolerant society in Pakistan.
Johnson cuts to the chase in his foreword: "There is no other product on earth, agricultural or industrial, where value is as directly and precisely related to where it grows and is made.
What follows is the book's foreword by Anand Gopal, whose own book—No Good Men Among the Living was just nominated for a National Book Award.
Mr Campbell, who drafted the first version of the foreword - ultimately approved by Mr Blair - said no-one in intelligence challenged this statement.
