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AUSTIN MITCHELL has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Great Gimsby since 1977. A former official fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, he was elected after a career as a political science lecturer in New Zealand and as a broadcaster and journalist with the BBC and Yorkshire Television. Author of several books on the Labour Party, New Zealand and Yorkshire.
DAVID WIENIR, prior to this publication, was the host of the political commentary broadcast "Estonia Today" on Estonia National Radio. Educated at Columbia, Oxford, and The London School of Economics.
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This book follows the techniques of "Election 64" in letting those who made history tell the story in their own words. Why impose retrospective frameworks or the views of those who weren't there when the people who were - all Labour in this volume, then if not now - tell it so much better? We've talked to all who would talk to us and we're deeply grateful to them for their time, their courtesy and their recollections. They bring alive a time when one author was in a happier land far away and the other wasn't even born (no prizes for guessing which).
We've concentrated on the two threads of the story of the second postwar Labour government which are most relevant to today's politics. How Labour can win and hold power and how Labour governments succeed or fail by their handling of the real economy. With hindsight the government of 1964-70 threw away a great opportunity. That's our perspective. Those who participated don't necessarily acept it. Indeed, several disagree, but all their views are represented so that thirty years later we can understand what happened and those who resume Labour's Sisyphean task of rolling the stone of progress up the hill can learn the lessons of last time...
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Slight crease to corner front cover. The parallels between last time and Labour's progress to power today are striking. In this book those who played the key roles in Labour's great election victories of 1964 and 1966 describe their techniques for winning, the way in which Labour governed dynamically on a small minority to build up support and win its bigtgest majority since 1945, and the key role played by Harold Wilson as an energetic, modernising leader who brought Labour back into tune with the national mood, let it to victory - but then threw it all away. This book chronicles Labour's triumphs and failures of the sixties. it shows how the great victory turned sour in the face of economic difficulties and how Wilson failed to seize the moment to ensure the economic growth on which Labour's success depended, then as now. In four years of the ineteen sixties Labour went from triumph to tragedy. This book chronicles that dramatic process, in the world of whose who took part, to point the lessons for New Labour so it can avoid the mistakes old Labour made in the sixties. 246 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 086292
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