New Labour's Old Roots: Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History

by Patrick Diamond

The New Labour project was not conjured up out of thin air -- it only looks that way because of the party's amnesia about the intellectual roots and political traditions which have guided it. This book provides extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians located within the revisionist tradition as an antidote to that amnesia. It is an 'all star cast' from R.H. Tawney, Hugh Gaitskell and Anthony Crosland to Roy Hattersley, Gordon Brown and Tony...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845407687
• ISBN13: 9781845407681
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.0" x 9.6"