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Dr Robin Harris (born 22 June 1952) is a British author and journalist. He has written for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''Prospect''. He attained his undergraduate degree and doctorate in modern history from Exeter College, Oxford University. ==Biography== Harris was Director of the Conservative Research Department from 1985 to 1988 and a member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1989 to 1990. He helped draft the Conservative Party manifesto for the 1987 general election. It was initially thought that Margaret Thatcher's record in government should be recorded by Harris and John O'Sullivan in a political biography covering her premiership titled ''Undefeated''.〔Alan Watkins, ''A Conservative Coup: The Fall of Margaret Thatcher'' (Duckworth, 1992), p. 209.〕 What eventually happened was that Thatcher hired Harris to write most of her memoir ''The Downing Street Years''. In that memoir Thatcher wrote that Harris was "My indispensable sherpa in the enterprise of writing this book" and that "Without his advice and help at every stage, I doubt that we could have reached the summit".〔Margaret Thatcher, ''The Downing Street Years'' (HarperCollins, 1993), p. xiii.〕 Harris also helped Thatcher write her book ''Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World'' and has written the biography ''Not for Turning:The Life of Margaret Thatcher''. Harris courted controversy when he wrote a pamphlet (''A Tale of Two Chileans'') in 1999 defending General Pinochet's ''coup d'état'' against the Marxist President of Chile Salvador Allende. In an interview with fellow journalist Andy Beckett in 2000 Harris says: "It was a polarising thing. I was on the Right, and I thought it was a bloody good thing it had happened".〔Andy Beckett, ''Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's hidden history'' (Faber and Faber, 2002), p. 179.〕 In Harris' view, Pinochet was kidnapped and unjustly treated by the Blair government.〔 In March 2006 he attacked Conservative leader David Cameron in an article for ''Prospect'' for what he sees as Cameron's repositioning of the party to the Left. He favourably compared the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown to Thatcher and claimed both are "immensely able, a workaholic, driven by values from a Protestant upbringing" but that in an election against Brown, Cameron "may look unprincipled and insubstantial".〔Robin Harris, ('Spoiling the party' ), ''Prospect'', March 2006.〕 Andrew Roberts, in a 2007 review, characterised as a "fluent, intelligent and engaging book" Harris' biography of Talleyrand.〔(telegraph.co.uk: "One of history's greatest, most repugnant, figures" ), 25 Feb 2007〕 Harris was interviewed at length by Nick Higham upon publication of his book ''The Conservatives - A History'' when part of the Conservative party appeared to be in rebellion over David Cameron's delay of a referendum on the European Union.〔(bbc.com: "Meet the Author: Robin Harris" ), 11 Nov 2011〕 In August 2013, Harris wrote in defence of the Syriac Christian community a condemnation of Western leadership over the "persecution leading to elimination" of that group.〔(spectator.co.uk: "Whoever wins in Syria, its Christians will lose" ), 31 Aug 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robin Harris (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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