Francis Beckett (None)

Fascist in the Family

The Tragedy of John Beckett M.P.

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Produktbeschreibung

Even by the standards of the heated political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s, John Beckett led an extraordinary life.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781138907874
• ISBN-10: 1138907871
• Artikelnr.: 45175220

Autorenporträt

Francis Beckett is an author, journalist and playwright. The best known of his 19 non-fiction books is Clem Attlee - Labour's Great Reformer, and this, the latest of his five plays.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Eva Solomon and the Yeomen of Cheshire
2. The Legacy of War
3. Major Attlee and Corporal Beckett
4. The Theatre and the General Election
5. Labour's Youngest MP
6. The 1926 General Strike
7. A Complicated Life
8. The Death of Hope
9. Playing to the Gallery
10. 1931
11. Dying on Stage
12. A Life in Ruins
13. Anne
14. The Streetfighter
15. Following the Bleeder
16. Jew-Baiting and Standing by the King
17. The National Socialist League
18. The Anti-War Faction
19. Prison
20. Mr Morrison's Prisoner
21. A Birth and A Hanging
22. Indian Summer
23. The Catholic Church and the Soul of the Far Right
24. A Family in Freefall
25. Struts and Frets His Hour Upon The Stage, and then is Heard No More
26. Legacy of a Jewish Anti Semite