From Bevan to Blair
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-2178-3 (ISBN)
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For more than half a century Geoffrey Goodman was one of Fleet Street's foremost political and industrial reporters. This book is his record of what it was like to work at the heart of British politics. Taking us through the years that followed the end of World War II up to the present day, he offers a compelling story of the characters and events that shaped British political history.
Goodman's portraits include many of the political giants of the twentieth century. As a close friend of the great socialist Aneurin Bevan, he is able to reveal the philosophy and drive of the man who. Goodman also offers a behind-the-scenes account of Labour Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, and brings to light new reasons why Wilson suspected the security agencies of trying to destabilise his government.
Other portraits include Michael Foot, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Willie Whitelaw, Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch and Hugh Cudlipp.
Geoffrey Goodman was an industrial editor, columnist and assistant editor of the Daily Mirror. He previously reported for the Daily Herald, the Odhams Sun, the News Chronicle and the Manchester Guardian, and was founding editor of the British Journalist Review, where he was the emeritus chairman. He is books include The Awkward Warrior (Spokesman, 1984) and From Bevan to Blair (Pluto Press, 2003). He was awarded a CBE in 1998 for his services to journalism.
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. 1945: Footsteps in the dark
2. Early life: Buttonholes and cornerstones
3. The 1930s: The devil’s decade
4. The war years: My university of life
5. Postwar world: Civvy street, Fleet Street
6. Aneurin Bevan: From NHS to The Bomb
7. The 1960s: Postwar interregnum
8. Harold Wilson: White heat and The Sun
9. In place of courage: Journalism in decline?
10. The long march: Dropping in on China in the Cultural Revolution
11. Prepare for revolution: In Britain?
12. 1973-4: For all our tomorrows
13. Inside the Whale: A journalist in Whitehall
14. Jim Callaghan takes over: ‘Too late at 64’?
15. Return of the Native: Back to the Mirror
16. A nation in discontent: Nothing at the end of the rainbow
17. 1979: The curtain falls, enter Margaret Thatcher
18. Maxwelliana: Cap’n Bob and his slippery decks
19. Conclusion: A funny old world
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.9.2003 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7453-2178-X / 074532178X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-2178-3 / 9780745321783 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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