Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility (The Alastair Campbell Diaries, 3) - Softcover

Campbell, Alastair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099493470 ISBN 13: 9780099493471

Publisher: Arrow, 2012

Synopsis

POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, changing the course of both the Bush presidency and the Blair premiership.

In this volume, we see that New Labour's honeymoon is well and truly over. In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top, here we find graphic accounts of a variety of domestic crises: foot-and-mouth disease and protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt. Volume Three includes Peter Mandelson's second resignation, the agonies of the Millennium Dome, and the most unexpected slow-handclapping in memory, when the Women's Institute turned against Tony Blair. Yet despite all the problems - not least the most accident-prone manifesto launch in history, complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter - Labour won a second successive landslide election victory. That triumph is intimately recorded here, alongside the high points of this period, such as devolution to Northern Ireland and the fall of Milosevic.

About this title

Review:

"A compulsively fascinating record" (Daily Telegraph (on Vol. 2))

"A belter" (Independent (on Vol. 2))

"Instantly captivating" (Spectator (on Vol. 2))

"Alastair Campbell's diaries have the quality of Pepys ... people will be looking for insights and finding them in 100 years' time" (Lord Alex Carlile (Vol. 1))

Book Description:

The third volume of Campbell's compelling diaries, covering 1999 to 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099493470
• ISBN 13: 9780099493471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768