Paul Foot - A Life in Politics

A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justice

List of contents

Introduction: Our Left Foot

1. Mangoes in the Bath
2. An Inky Little Boy
3. Paradise on Earth
4. No Mean City
5. The Leper
6. A Bee to the Honeypot
7. Tightnits
8. Who Killed Hanratty?
9. One Glorious Summer
10. Y, Oh Lord, Oh Why
11. Vote for Foot
12. Honey on the Elbow
13. The Ditto Man
14. Poetry and Revolution
15. Look in the Mirror
16. The Enemy Within
17. Pamphleteer
18. Baldric’s Cunning Plan
19. Who Killed Carl Bridgewater?
20. A Rattling Good Yarn
21. To Divide Is Not to Take Away
22. The Hired Bravos
23. The Great Crook
24. Back to the Honeypot
25. Head and Heart
26. Skinning the Tiger
27. Perfidious Financial Idiocy
28. The White Radiance of Eternity

Bibliography of Paul Foot Works
Notes
Index

About the author

Margaret Renn is a writer and journalist. She worked alongside Paul Foot on Socialist Worker and then at the Daily Mirror from the early '80s until 1993. She has since worked at the BBC and produced radio documentaries for Radio 4 and the World Service, including programs on Lockerbie and on corruption. From 2009 until 2015 she was a Visiting Fellow in Investigative Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Summary

A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justice

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Renn, Renn Margaret
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2024
• EAN: 9781804291900
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-190-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political activism, Press & journalism, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, News media and journalism, Biography: writers, Political activism / Political engagement