Michael Foot: A LifeThe 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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... June 1958 ) 32. Western Morning News , 16 May 1955 ; entry on Vickers by Patrick Cosgrave , Oxford Dictionary of ... June 1958 ) 52. Interview with Geoffrey Goodman 53. Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman , p.751 ( 5 June 1959 ) 54 ...
... June 1958 ) 32. Western Morning News , 16 May 1955 ; entry on Vickers by Patrick Cosgrave , Oxford Dictionary of ... June 1958 ) 52. Interview with Geoffrey Goodman 53. Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman , p.751 ( 5 June 1959 ) 54 ...
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... June 2004 15. Correspondence between Michael Bessie and Foot ( Foot private papers ) 16. Anthony Hern to Charles Wintour , 25 June , 27 August 1962 ( HLRO , Beaverbrook Papers , H / 268 ) 17. John Campbell , Nye Bevan and the Mirage of ...
... June 2004 15. Correspondence between Michael Bessie and Foot ( Foot private papers ) 16. Anthony Hern to Charles Wintour , 25 June , 27 August 1962 ( HLRO , Beaverbrook Papers , H / 268 ) 17. John Campbell , Nye Bevan and the Mirage of ...
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... June 2006 ; the letter is quoted in full on the New Statesman website . Tony Blair's nomination for Sedgefield is discussed in Francis Beckett and David Hencke , The Blairs and their Court ( Aurum , 2004 ) , pp.63-4 56. For Militant ...
... June 2006 ; the letter is quoted in full on the New Statesman website . Tony Blair's nomination for Sedgefield is discussed in Francis Beckett and David Hencke , The Blairs and their Court ( Aurum , 2004 ) , pp.63-4 56. For Militant ...
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Nonconformist Patrician 19131934 I | 1 |
Cripps to Beaverbrook 19341940 | 37 |
Pursuing Guilty Men 19401945 | 75 |
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