Most Dangerous Man in Britain? - The Political Writing

About the author

Radical statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, Tony Benn (1925-2014) is the pre-eminent diarist of his generation. He held numerous offices in his long carrer as a Labour MP including Postmaster General, Chairman of the Party's National Executive Committee, Minister of Industry, His political activity continued after 'retirement' in 2014 when he was President of the Stop the War Coalition.Melissa Benn is a journalist, novelist and activist. She has written for the Guardian, New Statesman and London Review of Books, among many others. Her books on education include School Wars and Life Lessons and she has played a prominent role in several campaigns including Comprehensive Future and the Private Education Policy Forum. A regular speaker and broadcaster, she is currently a writing fellow at Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor in Education, Psychology and Language at York St John.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Benn
• Assisted by: Benn Melissa (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2025
• EAN: 9781804298299
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-829-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Politics and government, Anthologies: general, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Anthologies (non-poetry)