Fascist in the Family - The Tragedy of John Beckett M.p.

Zusatztext 103417874 Informationen zum Autor Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, playwright and contemporary historian. His eighteen books include biographies of four Prime Ministers, the first of which is about his own political hero, Clement Attlee. He has written for several national newspapers, but mostly for the Guardian, for which he was a regular feature writer and reviewer for many years. His plays have been performed on radio and at the London Fringe. He is a former president of the National Union of Journalists and a Labour Party and trade union press officer and editor, and is currently editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age. Zusammenfassung Even by the standards of the heated political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s, John Beckett led an extraordinary life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Eva Solomon and the Yeomen of Cheshire 2. The Legacy of War 3. Major Attlee and Corporal Beckett 4. The Theatre and the General Election 5. Labour's Youngest MP 6. The 1926 General Strike 7. A Complicated Life 8. The Death of Hope 9. Playing to the Gallery 10. 1931 11. Dying on Stage 12. A Life in Ruins 13. Anne 14. The Streetfighter 15. Following the Bleeder 16. Jew-Baiting and Standing by the King 17. The National Socialist League 18. The Anti-War Faction 19. Prison 20. Mr Morrison’s Prisoner 21. A Birth and A Hanging 22. Indian Summer 23. The Catholic Church and the Soul of the Far Right 24. A Family in Freefall 25. Struts and Frets His Hour Upon The Stage, and then is Heard No More 26. Legacy of a Jewish Anti Semite

Product details

• Authors: Francis Beckett, Francis (None) Beckett
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138907669
• ISBN: 978-1-138-90766-9
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right; Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fascism & Nazism, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military