Tony Benn New Edition: Revised Edition

By David Powell

Book Overview

David Powell's fascinating biography traces Tony Benn's extraordinary fifty-year political career from the day he first entered the House of Commons in 1950. Benn has always been a controversial figure. Nonetheless many of the policies he championed, including some for which he was widely belittled, have since entered the statute books. Indeed, if history is a chronicle of ironies, there can have been little more ironic than when, following Benn's valedictory speech in the Commons in 2001, a Tory backbencher commended him to fellow MPs as Britain's 'greatest living Parliamentarian.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826470742
• ISBN13: 9780826470744
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.7" x 5.4"