A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries

Benn, Tony

ISBN 10: 0099564955 / ISBN 13: 9780099564959

Published by Arrow, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries
• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099564955
• ISBN 13: 9780099564959
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1751443771.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47108903
• Signed: 7/2/2025 8:09:31 AM
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age.

With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and accountability in public life, to a background of political change and the international economic crisis.

Following an illness in 2009 the diaries, kept for over sixty years, cease. Published here alongside these last diaries are Tony Benn’s highly personal insights into the challenges of old age and failing health, of widowhood,and of moving out of the family home after sixty years.

Finally, we share in Tony Benn's hopes for the future based on his years of experience and his natural optimism.

About the Author

Radical statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, Tony Benn is the pre-eminent diarist of his generation. His political activity continued after 'retirement' through mass meetings, broadcasts and in more recent years through social media. A widower since 2000, Tony Benn died at his home in London on 14th March 2014.