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Michael Foot's biography of Nye Bevan is one of the great political biographies of the last century. Originally published in two volumes (1962 and 1973), Faber Finds is reissuing it in the same way.
The first volume covers Bevan's life from his birth in 1897 to his entry into Atlee's Cabinet in 1945: the second covers his years from 1945 to his death in 1960.
Nye Bevan, forever associated with the formation of the National Health Service, is arguably Britain's greatest socialist. This biography, written with passion and unashamed admiration, is a magnificent celebration of a great life.
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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.
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Lost this book in one of my moves and, in view of the catastrophy of the last election, wanted to cheer myself up by re reading this standard text about the star of all Socialists. Michael Foot's style now seems way too erudite and rather dry. However, it did remind me of some of the wonderful things Aneurin said during his lifetime and also of the massive contribution he made to the welfare state in this country which current Camereggs are currently demolishing. Given the pigs ear they are making with all the modern technology at their disposal and all the people that now work in central government, how astonishing that one man with a loud voice, good heart and pen and paper could make such massive differences to the quality of life of so many people on so many different fronts. Well worth buying again
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