Editing Jeremy Paxman (section)

===Books===
[[File:Jeremy Paxman, September 2009 2 cropped.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Paxman in September 2009]]
Paxman's first book, ''A Higher Form of Killing'' (1982), written with then BBC colleague and friend [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]], arose out of an edition of the ''Panorama'' programme they had made together on [[biological warfare|biological]] and [[chemical warfare]]. In a revised 2002 version they asserted that [[Iraq and weapons of mass destruction|Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons]]. In 1985, Paxman published ''Through the Volcanoes: A Central American Journey'', an [[eyewitness account]] of people, places and politics. ''Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain?'' (1991) was the result of numerous detailed interviews with the powerful or highly influential, what used to be called [[The Establishment]]. 1999 saw the publication of his ''The English: A Portrait of a People''.<!-- (1999) was not the first of his books to be greeted with wide critical acclaim.--> ''The Political Animal: An Anatomy'' (2003), again based on extensive interviews, examines the motivations and methods of those who constitute the author's professional prey: Westminster politicians.

The otherwise-republican<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9307361/Jeremy-Paxman-Were-all-monarchists-now-even-me.html |title=Jeremy Paxman: We'e all monarchists now – even me – Telegraph |access-date=12 May 2015 |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=3 June 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026201752/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9307361/Jeremy-Paxman-Were-all-monarchists-now-even-me.html |archive-date=26 October 2015  }}</ref> Paxman's ''[[On Royalty]]'', which entailed the cooperation of Britain's [[British royal family|Royal Family]], became by the time it was published in 2006 a defence of the country's [[Constitutional monarchy#Constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom|constitutional monarchy]]. His recent books have been big sellers. His [[history book]], ''The Victorians: Britain through the Paintings of the Age'', published in 2009, was accompanied by a BBC documentary series. In his introduction, Paxman acknowledged that the Irish writer Neil Hegarty had played a significant role in editing the book and bringing it to completion. Paxman stated that since all television is a "collaborative exercise", it was "rather silly for this book – which accompanies a television series – to appear with only one name on the cover."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/20/jeremy-paxman-victorians-neil-hegarty |work=The Guardian |title=Jeremy Paxman too busy to finish his own best-seller |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=20 March 2009 |location=London |access-date=15 April 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513161909/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/20/jeremy-paxman-victorians-neil-hegarty |archive-date=13 May 2014  }}</ref> Paxman's most recent book is a study of the [[British Empire]], ''Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British''.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/05/empire-ruling-world-paxman-review| title = Jeremy Paxman's survey of British imperial rule is sharp and engaging| last = Porter| first = Bernard| date = 5 October 2011| access-date = 11 October 2011| work = The Guardian| location = London| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140829030400/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/05/empire-ruling-world-paxman-review| archive-date = 29 August 2014| df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="guardian felt myself an outsider">{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/09/jeremy-paxman-felt-myself-outsider | title=Jeremy Paxman: 'I've always felt myself to be an outsider' | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=9 October 2011 | access-date=13 October 2011 | last=Moss | first=Stephen | location=London | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513162025/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/09/jeremy-paxman-felt-myself-outsider | archive-date=13 May 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Paxman kept a detached tone while writing his memoir, ''A Life in Questions'', which was published in October 2016.<ref name="Paxman2016">{{cite book|author=Jeremy Paxman|title=A Life in Questions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1qQDAEACAAJ|date=1 October 2016|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Limited|isbn=978-0-00-820153-1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231224703/https://books.google.com/books?id=e1qQDAEACAAJ|archive-date=31 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/10/a-life-in-questions-jeremy-paxman-review|title=A Life in Questions review – Jeremy Paxman keeps his distance in his memoir|last=Anthony|first=Andrew|date=10 October 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=27 July 2017|issn=0261-3077|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722132932/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/10/a-life-in-questions-jeremy-paxman-review|archive-date=22 July 2017}}</ref>