Francis Beckett

Fascist in the Family (eBook, PDF)

The Tragedy of John Beckett M.P.

• Format: PDF

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

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317416036
• Artikelnr.: 46758773

Autorenporträt

Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, playwright and contemporary historian. His eighteen books include biographies of four Prime Ministers, the first of which is about his own political hero, Clement Attlee. He has written for several national newspapers, but mostly for the Guardian, for which he was a regular feature writer and reviewer for many years. His plays have been performed on radio and at the London Fringe. He is a former president of the National Union of Journalists and a Labour Party and trade union press officer and editor, and is currently editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age.

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