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The uncollected Michael Foot : essays old and new, 1945-2003 / edited and introduced by Brian Brivati.
LIBRA CT120 .F66 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foot, Michael, 1913-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography--20th century.
- Biography.
- Politicians--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 374 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Politico's, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Politics, poetry and passion / Brian Brivati ix
- Books by Michael Foot xix
- Part 1 A better way
- A better way to abolish the weapons 3
- Gorbachev 10
- Churchill versus the H-Bomb 18
- Part 2 The women take over
- Sally's broomstick 23
- Our honeymoon 28
- Janet Kidd 32
- Emmeline Pankhurst 35
- Brigid Brophy 39
- Indira Gandhi 49
- Ruth Khama 57
- Peggy Ashcroft 61
- Rebecca West 64
- Part 3 The collaborators
- Gore Vidal's Montaigne 71
- Edmund Wilson's Jean-Jacques 75
- Conor Cruise O'Brien's Edmund Burke 100
- C. L. R. James's Michelet 107
- Robert Woof's William Wordsworth 116
- Our Heine 126
- Stanley Jones's Hazlitt 151
- Jonathan Bate's Hazlitt 155
- Richard Holmes's Coleridge 158
- Part 4 An Irish interlude
- Celtic nationalism 163
- The year of liberty 167
- The Fenian chief 170
- Daniel O'Connell 173
- Isaac Butt 176
- James Larkin 179
- Tim Healy 182
- Oscar Wilde 187
- Irish guns against Irishmen 191
- James Joyce 194
- Oliver St John Gogarty 199
- A real democrat 203
- Part 5 Labour and the nation
- Robert Owen 209
- William Morris 213
- The Webbs 216
- North Cornwall 1939 220
- Never again 225
- Labour's war 230
- Ideals and raw deals 234
- Harold Laski 237
- The Stalin myth 244
- The trouble with Victor 246
- George Lansbury 250
- Aneurin Bevan 253
- Ernest Bevin 256
- Tom Driberg 260
- Richard Crossman 264
- Jack Jones 268
- Denis Healey 271
- John Smith 275
- Part 6 Voices for freedom
- Charles James Fox 281
- Citizen Paine 285
- Amartya Sen 289
- Salman Rushdie 294
- Comrades all 298
- Ian Gilmour 301
- Martin Gilbert's Churchill 304
- Nigel Nicolson 309
- Bob Boothby 312
- Beaverbrook's seductions 316
- My Egyptian hero 320
- Willy Brandt 323
- Noel Malcolm 325
- A special Hyde Park victory 329
- Part 7 The poetry of places
- Venice 335
- Hampstead for all 343
- Wales to the world 353
- Dubrovnik 357
- A new statue for Trafalgar Square 366
- Footnote: Cats, dogs and Ursula 369
- A note on the typographer: Stanley Morison 371.
- ISBN:
- 190230196X
- OCLC:
- 46432684
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