He then just as persuasively describes John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band's excursion into left-wing topical song two years later, "Some Time in New York City," as the album "where the heyday of the 1960s protest song came to die".
He judges also that, though Nixon did carry "further than any of his predecessors the pursuit of serious negotiations with the Soviet Union," his policy of détente floundered for lack of political support.Despite his own role, Mr Bundy persuasively describes American policy in Indochina from its inception to its conclusion as a disaster.
A persuasively detailed account of the forces driving the Bush White House, as described by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, from Saddam Hussein to tax-cut battles.
She describes, quite persuasively, the attractions of fundamentalism and the growing appeal of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in disintegrating societies like Somalias.
Irving Howe once described her as "the archaeologist of human relations," and she wrote persuasively about politics, feminism, Communism and black-white relations in Africa before moving on to explore the emotional crevices of the human psyche in her groundbreaking novel "The Golden Notebook" (1962).
Byron himself described his response, of which he was later ostentatiously if not quite persuasively ashamed, in sporting terms: "I recollect the effect on me of the Edinburgh on my first poem; it was rage, and resistance, and redress - but not despondency nor despair.
In a 1973 review in The Times John Rockwell described Mr. Perkinson at the podium, a "tall, brooding man, he conducts economically and persuasively".
These epiphanies or conversions or "turns", as John Sturrock has described them, appear to find the point at which "all can be seen to cohere", and as Kermode says, "to communicate persuasively the experience of the turn it is necessary to practise an art".
The whole incident, described in intimate detail by Ms. Hilton, would seem almost comical -- atheistic Communist bureaucrats talking about miraculous events surrounding the birth of their preferred boy -- but, of course, the blatant fakery of China's actions, persuasively exposed in Ms. Hilton's study, are not funny at all.
But she also writes persuasively about Iran, Algeria and, of course, Pakistan, from a non-Western point of view, accurately describing the corrosive role of the West in many of these countries and arguing that the pervasive interference, often to support unpopular dictatorships, has left bitter memories in these lands.
