Aneurin Bevan: A Biography - Volume 2: 1945-1960

Informationen zum Autor Michael Foot (1913-2010) was a writer, journalist and politician, leading the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. His numerous books range from the withering polemic Guilty Men (co-written with Peter Howard and Frank Owen) about the hapless appeasers of the 1930s to his magnificent two-volume biography of Aneurin Bevan. Klappentext A two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan (1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist! indelibly associated with the founding of the National Health Service. It begins with Bevan's role in the founding of National Health Service - this while he was also tasked with addressing the country's severe post-war housing shortage. Zusammenfassung Michael Foot's two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan (1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist, indelibly associated with the founding of the National Health Service - is one of the major political biographies of the last century.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Foot, FOOT MICHAEL
• Assisted by: Michae Foot (Editor), Michael Foot (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2009
• EAN: 9780571248377
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24837-7
• No. of pages: 700
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Politics & government, British & Irish history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Biography: historical, political and military, Faber Finds; Government; Politicians; Socialism