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How to Be Right

...in a world gone wrong

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By: James O'Brien
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to Be Right, written and read by James O'Brien.

Forget agreeing to disagree – it’s time to learn How To Be Right.

Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists and immigrants. But what makes James’s daily LBC show such essential listening – and has made James a standout social media star – is the careful way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning.

In How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards.

If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or little England patriots, this book is your conversation survival guide.

‘I have had a ringside seat as a significant swathe of the British population was persuaded that their failures were the fault of foreigners, that unisex lavatories threatened their peace of mind and that ‘all Muslims’ must somehow apologise for terror attacks by extremists. I have tried to dissuade them and sometimes succeeded.... The challenge is to distinguish sharply between the people who told lies and the people whose only offence was to believe them.’ (James O’Brien)

©2018 James O'Brien (P)2018 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews

"O’Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair." (The Guardian)

"Almost indecently enjoyable." (Robert Webb)

"I know few broadcasters as consistently, forensically, brilliant as James O’ Brien. Here, he shows us -- with empathy, edge and exquisite comedy -- how it happens." (Emily Maitlis)

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Made me realise that democracy without education is never going to work.
The future belongs to hate preachers. James is not one of them. He is just exposing some victims of hate propaganda to whom the future looks brown.

The second most important book I read this year

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Captivating from start to finish. I learned a great deal and intend to approach things differently from now on.

Makes so much sence

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overall a good read/listen. I'm a big fan of JOB on LBC and have been a long time listener. However I was expecting more depth and analysis, maybe more facts and stats (maybe a bit how Owen Jones presents his books). If felt a little bit like a collection of his LBC 'best of' calls formulated into a book. Entertaining for sure, and excellent insights from James as usual. Also he reads it very well.

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A great audio book, really easy to listen to. James pulls apart issues really well. Great to listen to as audiobook over reading it as James reenacts his radio calls. For someone who heard these when broadcast on LBC maybe this wouldn’t work well as the acting is well acting, better to watch YouTube to get the real call. But for someone new, like I was, this is a must and as I say I’m now a daily listener.

Loved it and now listen to LBC daily

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if you like o'Brien then you will like this simple

read good, as youd expect. an just like an episode of his radio show really.

if you like o'Brien then you will like this simple

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