Radical Life

History

Jones, Mervyn

Europe

Hutchinson

"Joseph" is Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, known to the Czarist secret police and to his fellow Bolsheviks as (among other names).

Joseph

Literature & Fiction

Atheneum

The beautiful words: A novel

Deutsch

A short time to live

St.Martin's Press

Lord Richard's Passion

Alfred.A. Knopf

In this biography of Michael Foot, a colleague and friend of many years' standing traces the career of a man who first stood as a Labour candidate at the age of 22. Recommended to Lord Beaverbrook by Aneurin Bevan, he was wartime editor of the "Evening Standard" and author of a series of campaigning books. With the support of his wife, Jill Craigie, Foot became the conscience of the Left through the years of the Aldermaston marches and the Vietnam War. Following spells as Secretary for Employment under Wilson, and Leader of the House of Commons under Callaghan, he was elected Labour Party leader in 1980 and brought his polemical skills to bear on Mrs Thatcher. But he was met with unprecedented vilification from his own side as well as the media, and it was an unhappy period which ended with Labour's catastrophic defeat in the 1983 General Election. Meanwhile, as a devotee of literature Foot produced scholarly books about Swift and Byron, as well as a massive biography of his hero, Bevan. Seeking to do full justice to Foot's achievements and to the complexities of his character, Mervyn Jones traces his personal and political development, and his relationships with personalities such as Barbara Castle, Tony Benn, Enoch Powell and Neil Kinnock. Jones's other books include over 20 novels. He was on the staff of "Tribune" under Michael Foot's editorship, and later assistant editor of "New Statesman".

Michael Foot

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Victor Gollancz

Holding on

Literary

Quartet Books

Lord Richard's passion

Genre Fiction

<p>Physical description; [5], 265p. ; 23cm. Subject; Fiction in English.</p>

The pursuit of happiness

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