Tony Benn THE BENN DIARIES First Single Volume Edition Signed
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Tony Benn THE BENN DIARIES First Single Volume Edition Signed
First edition first print hardback of THE BENN DIARIES (New Single Volume Edition) by Tony Benn (with Introduction by Ruth Winstone) and published by Hutchinson in 1995. Signed by Benn on the title page. Full numberline is 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front.The book is in good condition (black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with light bumping to the corners and the top and bottom edges of the slightly weakened spine. Heavy foxing to the top page edges. The book is in a good unclipped dust jacket which has light creasing to the edges and a small tear to the top back corner. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions. Good reading copy, but far from pristine.
The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events, arguments and personal reflections throughout Benn's long and remarkable career as a leading politician.
The narrative starts with Benn as a schoolboy and takes the reader through his youthful wartime experiences as a trainee pilot, his nervous excitement as a new MP during Clement Atlee's premiership and the tribulations of Labour in the 1950s, when the Conservatives were in firm control. It ends with the Tories again in power, but on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's fall, while Tony Benn is on a mission to Baghdad before the impending Gulf War.
Over the span of fifty years, the public and private turmoil in British and world politics is recorded as Benn himself moves from wartime service to become the baby of the House, Cabinet Minister, and finally the Commons' most senior Labour Member.
682 pages including Illustrations and Index
ISBN: 0091792231
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