Michael White
Mail Men: The Unauthorised Story of the Daily Mail, the Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain
by Adrian Addison (Atlantic, £20)
In the unlikely event that liberal readers will approach this book with vengeful relish, they will be disappointed. Their hopes for an aggressive dissection of the harm the Daily Mail has repeatedly done to British public life since the stridently right-wing newspaper was born in 1896 will evaporate as the author, Adrian Addison, tells his surprisingly jaunty tale.