Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010

Winstone, Ruth

ISBN 10: 1846684323 / ISBN 13: 9781846684326

Published by Profile Books, 2012

Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Good DJ with some edge wear, some marks and creasing. Seller Inventory # 9999-99990490856

Synopsis:

Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of those such as Nicolson, Cooper, Channon, Macmillan, Castle, Clark, Benn, Campbell, Mullin and Ashdown as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Peter Hall and Roy Strong, and the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men and women.

Events, Dear Boy, Events reveals Britain's recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping the events of the day. This is living real-time history.

About the Author: Ruth Winstone is the editor of Chris Mullin's trilogy of diaries covering British political life 1994-2010 and of Tony Benn's written and taped records. For many years she worked as a senior clerk in the library of the House of Commons.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary ...
Publisher: Profile Books
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included