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Author : Richard Howard Stafford Crossman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780749307509
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Crossman Diaries written by Richard Howard Stafford Crossman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Howard Stafford Crossman
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Crossman Diaries written by Richard Howard Stafford Crossman and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1979 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Howard Stafford Crossman
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman written by Richard Howard Stafford Crossman and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1981 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Howard
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Crossman written by Anthony Howard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Crossman and its author has had access to the subject's private papers. Both Crossman's personal life and political carrer are scrutinized by the mind of an experienced political commentator. It is shown how a matrimonial entanglement wrecked Crossman's chances of becoming an Oxford don and made him turn to politics. And indeed Crossman's ambivalent attitude to politics is revealed in his diaries.
Author : Tony Benn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446493733
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Benn Diaries written by Tony Benn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events, arguments and personal reflections throughout Benn's long and remarkable career as a leading politician. The narrative starts with Benn as a schoolboy and takes the reader through his youthful wartime experiences as a trainee pilot, his nervous excitement as a new MP during Clement Atlee's premiership and the tribulations of Labour in the 1950s, when the Conservatives were in firm control. It ends with the Tories again in power, but on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's fall, while Tony Benn is on a mission to Baghdad before the impending Gulf War. Over the span of fifty years, the public and private turmoil in British and world politics is recorded as Benn himself moves from wartime service to become the baby of the House, Cabinet Minister, and finally the Commons' most senior Labour Member.
Author : Major Bruce H. Norton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 039917771X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Force Recon Diary, 1969 written by Major Bruce H. Norton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite and highly trained, the 3d Force Recon's eight-man teams were assigned to obtain vital information about NVA operations. Alone, the men of these small teams were sent behind enemy lines, where they all knew that a single mistake could cost everyone their lives. United States Navy Hospital Corpsman Bruce Norton was the only navy corpsman to act as a Marine Force Recon Team Leader. In Force Recon Diary, 1969 Doc Norton chronicles his life, mission by mission, with the 3d Force Recon in the DMZ and the A Shau Valley. He describes the tense patrols, the supreme courage, the sacrifices—in ambushes and hot landing zones—that made this courageous company one of only two Marine units during the entire Vietnam War to receive the United States Army's Valorous Unit Citation.
Author : Joshua Hempstead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut, 1711-1758 written by Joshua Hempstead and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irene Taylor
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852921
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)
Download or read book The Assassin's Cloak written by Irene Taylor and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.
Author : Anthony Howard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448210828
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book RAB: The Life of R.A. Butler written by Anthony Howard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Austin Butler remains the great enigma of post-war British politics. Independent, indiscreet and never anything but irreverent, Butler commanded the respect of both sides of the Commons and would have been, on several occasions, the people's choice for premier. From his entry into politics in 1929 to his retirement from that arena in 1965, Butler's story is also that of British political life through almost four decades. Scarred by his association with the appeasers of Munich, he won the respect of the nation as the architect of the 1944 Education Act. From the viewpoint of these times of Tory wets and dries, Butler appears the victim of the age that divided gentlemen from players. In these pages, one of our most distinguished political journalists offers a revealing portrait of 'the best Prime Minister we never had'.
Author : Alan Duncan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008422273
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister written by Alan Duncan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Sensational ... One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published ... As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s’ DAILY MAIL The Sunday Times bestseller
Author : Joni B. Cole
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 1400082323
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book This Day in the Life written by Joni B. Cole and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women from all walks of life recorded their reality on a single day, resulting in this collection of 35 complete "day diaries" and hundreds of excerpts written on Tuesday, June 29, 2004. The diarists reveal the surprising common connections.
Author : Jonathan Lynn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446416488
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Complete Yes Minister written by Jonathan Lynn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castle's... and although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it is distinctly funnier' - Lord Allen of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at the Home Office) in The Times 'It has an entertainment and educational value which is unique. It is uproariously funny and passes the acid test of becoming more amusing at every subsequent reading... I will go so far as to claim that in the characters of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, Messrs Lynn and Jay have created something as immortal as P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and Jeeves' - Brian Walden in The Standard
Author : Chris Mullin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651860
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book A View From The Foothills written by Chris Mullin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for example - he has held several prominent posts. To the apoplexy of the whips, he was for a time the only person appointed to government who voted against the Iraq War. He also chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a member of the Parliamentary Committee, giving him direct access to the court of Tony Blair. Irreverent, wry and candid, Mullin's keen sense of the ridiculous allows him to give a far clearer insight into the workings of Government than other, more overtly successful politicians. He offers humorous and incisive takes on all aspects of political life: from the build-up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax-payers' money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use. His critically acclaimed diary will entertain and amuse far beyond the political classes.
Author : Christopher Ham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350311987
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Health Policy in Britain written by Christopher Ham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically updated throughout, the 6th edition of this leading text takes the story of health policy to the end of the Blair era and into the early years of the Brown premiership. It offers a clear and thorough introduction to the history of the NHS, its funding and priorities, and to the process of policy making.
Author : Graham McCann
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1781313229
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book A Very Courageous Decision written by Graham McCann and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes history of one of the most successful and admired British sitcoms of the 1980s. In 1977 the BBC commissioned a new satirical sitcom set in Whitehall. Production of its first series was stalled, however, by the death throes of Jim Callaghan’s Labour government and the ‘Winter of Discontent’; Auntie being unwilling to broadcast such an overtly political comedy until after the general election of 1979. That Yes Minister should have been delayed by the very events that helped bring Margaret Thatcher to power is, perhaps, fitting. Over three series from 1980—and two more as Yes, Prime Minister until 1988—the show mercilessly lampooned the vanity, self-interest and incompetence of our so-called public servants, making its hapless minister Jim Hacker and his scheming Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey two of the most memorable characters British comedy has ever produced. The new prime minister professed it her favourite television programme—a ‘textbook’ on the State in inaction—and millions of British viewers agreed. In the years since Yes Minister has become a national treasure: Sir Humphrey’s slippery circumlocutions have entered the lexicon, regularly quoted by political commentators, and the series’ cynical vision of government seems as credible now as it did thirty years ago. Much of this success can be credited to its writers, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, who drew on their contacts in Westminster to rework genuine political folly as situation comedy. Storylines that seemed absurd to the public were often rooted in actual events—so much so that they occasionally attracted the scrutiny of Whitehall mandarins. In A Very Courageous Decision acclaimed entertainment historian Graham McCann goes in search of the real political fiascos that inspired Yes Minister. Drawing on fresh interviews with cast, crew, politicians and admirers, he reveals how a subversive satire captured the mood of its time to become one of the most cherished sitcoms of Thatcher’s Britain.
Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407051555
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Speak for Britain! written by Martin Pugh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts Labour's rise to power by re-examining the impact of the First World War, the general strike of 1926, Labour's breakthrough at the 1945 general election, the influence of post-war affluence and consumerism on the fortunes and character of the party, and its revival after the defeats of the Thatcher era. Controversially, Pugh argues that Labour never entirely succeeded in becoming 'the party of the working class'; many of its influential recruits - from Oswald Mosley to Hugh Gaitskell to Tony Blair - were from middle and upper-class Conservative backgrounds and rather than converting the working class to socialism, Labour adapted itself to local and regional political cultures.
Author : Ben Pimlott
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008182620
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Harold Wilson written by Ben Pimlott and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson’s birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen.
