The Blair Years

Informationen zum Autor Alastair Campbell was born in Keighley, Yorkshire in 1957, the son of a vet. Having graduated from Cambridge University in modern languages, he went into journalism, principally with the Mirror Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party, Campbell worked for him first as press secretary, then as official spokesman and director of communications and strategy from 1994 to 2003. He continued to act as an advisor to Mr Blair and the Labour Party, including during subsequent election campaigns. He now splits his time between writing, speaking, politics in Britain and overseas, consultancy and charity, as chairman of fundraising for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, and a leading ambassador for the mental health campaign Time to Change. He lives in North London with his partner of thirty-five years, Fiona Millar. They have three children. His interests include running, cycling, bagpipes and Burnley Football Club. He has published six volumes of diaries, including the number one Sunday Times bestseller, The Blair Years , a memoir on depression, The Happy Depressive , and three novels. Klappentext The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life. Zusammenfassung The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life.

Bericht

This is a gripping, compelling and genuinely revelatory read Rod Liddle, Sunday Times

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alastair Campbell
• Verlag: Arrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780099514756
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951475-6
• Seiten: 832
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 44 mm
• Serien: Arrow Paperbacks; Arrow Paperbacks
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Zeitgeschichte (1945 bis 1989); Sachbuch; Grossbritannien : Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Blair, Tony, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political leaders & leadership, c 2000 to c 2009, Diaries, letters and journals, Political leaders and leadership, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs