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Subject(s)

• Labour Party (Great Britain)—History [Browse]
• Politicians—Great Britain—Biography [Browse]
• Great Britain—Politics and government—20th century [Browse]

Summary note

David Marquand's account of how the Labour Party made itself electable and why it remained in the wilderness for so many years now has a new introduction and controversial new chapters on Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair.

Notes

Previous ed.: London: Heinemann, 1992.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The paradox of British democracy
• Asquith's ghost
• Revolution averted
• Varieties of reform
• The politics of deprivation
• Ernest Bevin and the apotheosis of Labourism
• Hugh Dalton : the progressive as bounder
• Sir Stafford Cripps : the progressive as moralist
• Herbert Morrison : the socialist as consolidator
• Aneurin Bevan : the progressive as socialist
• Hugh Gaitskell : the social democrat as hero
• Richard Crossman : the progressive as gadfly
• The tortoise and the hare [Michael Stewart, Douglas Jay]
• Harold Wilson : alibi for a party?
• Tony Crosland : the progressive as loyalist
• James Callaghan : Labourism's second wind
• Roy Jenkins : the progressive as Whig
• David Owen : the progressive as meteor
• Neil Kinnock : the progressive as Moses
• Progressive or populist? The Blair paradox
• The social-democratic moment.

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ISBN

0753807068

OCLC

59380796

RCP

H - S

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