Michael Foot: A Life

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HarperPress, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 568 pages
The authorised (but not uncritical) life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, now in his nineties, who is also an eminent man of letters. Michael Foot has been a controversial and charismatic figure in British public life, political and literary, for over sixty years. Emerging from a famous west-country Liberal dynasty, he rose as a crusading left-wing journalist in the late 1930s: 'The Guilty Men' (his book on the pre-war appeasers of Nazi Germany) is one of the great radical tracts of British history. He has been the voice of libertarian socialism in parliament, an international socialist and government minister, and was Labour leader for two-and-a-half -years between 1980 and 1983. His political friendships with people like Beaverbrook, Cripps, Aneurin Bevan and Barbara Castle were passionate and profound, but he also had a remarkable and quite different career as a man of letters ...

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Nonconformist Patrician 19131934 I
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Cripps to Beaverbrook 19341940
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Pursuing Guilty Men 19401945
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Kenneth Morgan is the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Honorary fellow of Queen's and Oriel Colleges, Fellow of the British Academy and, since 2000, a Labour peer. He is the author of 25 books, including biographies of Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Lord Addison and Lord Callaghan. His Oxford Illustrated History of Britain has sold over 700,000 copies.

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