More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 (Signed Copy)

Tony Benn; Ruth Winstone (editor)

ISBN 10: 0099517051 / ISBN 13: 9780099517054

Published by Arrow, UK, 2008

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9780099517054. Softcover. Not ex. library. 416 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs. SIGNED and dedicated by Tony Benn on the title page. Contents clean, tight and bright. Seller Inventory # 034329

Bibliographic Details

Title: More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 (...

Publisher: Arrow, UK

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns and appearances in the media, passionately bringing moral and political issues to wide audiences. And throughout, as ever, he has been keeping his diaries.

Commenting on the demise of the New Labour project from the re-election of Tony Blair in 2001 to the ultimate foreign policy disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, he gives other prescient accounts of the government's by-passing of Cabinet, parliament and the party, of the 'war on terror', the debate about Islam, globalisation and the changes in British society. Although he is no longer in power or in parliament, Tony Benn remains a figure of enormous respect whose direct views, honestly expressed, have often awakened the national conscience. His latest Diaries, human and challenging in turn, are an enthralling read.

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.