From Bevan to Blair : fifty years' reporting from the political front line / Geoffrey Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Goodman, Geoffrey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'All through these momentous years in Labour history, indeed British history, Geoffrey Goodman has had a special ringside seat ... We all knew he had the best story to tell, and here it is. It is a triumph of character as much as journalistic skill. Everyone who had the good luck to be friendly with Geoffrey and his family, soon discovered that he was never just serving himself. He truly honoured the highest ideals of the Labour movement he had chosen to serve.' Michael Foot'What Geoffrey Goodman doesn't know about political journalism didn't happen. This fascinating book takes us through the pass door to the corridors of power.' Keith Waterhouse For more than half a century Geoffrey Goodman was one of Fleet Street's foremost political and industrial reporters. This book is his record of what it was like to work at the heart of British politics. Taking us through the years that followed the end of World War II right up to today, he offers a compelling story of the characters and events that shaped British political history.Goodman's unique portraits include many of the political giants of the twentieth century. As a close friend of the great socialist Aneurin Bevan, he is able to reveal the philosophy and drive of the man who could have been Premier. Goodman also offers a behind-the-scenes account of Labour Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, whom he worked with, and brings to light new reasons why Wilson suspected the security agencies of trying to destabilize his government.Other portraits include Michael Foot, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Willie Whitelaw, Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch and Hugh Cudlipp. Then there is the still untold story of the life and bizarre death of Goodman's former boss Robert Maxwell -- was he murdered? Goodman provides convincing answers.Geoffrey Goodman has been a journalist all his working life. When he retired from the Daily Mirror he launched the British Journalism Review -- a quarterly magazine that has now an established reputation as one of the most authoritative of all media journals. This book brings to life a political period which has shaped all our current experiences. It will be of interest to anyone who wants an insider's account of great characters in British political history, and in particular to the evolution of the Labour party over the course of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 1945: Footsteps in the Dark

2 Early Life: Buttonholes and Cornerstones

3 The 1930s: The Devil's Decade

4 The War Years: My University of Life

5 Postwar World: Civvy Street, Fleet Street

6 Aneurin Bevan: From NHS to The Bomb

7 The 1960s: Postwar Interregnum

8 Harold Wilson: White Heat and the Sun

9 In Place of Courage: Journalism in Decline

10 The Long March: Dropping in on China in the Cultural Revolution

11 Prepare for Revolution: In Britain?

12 1973 -4: For All Our Tomorrows

13 Inside the Whale: A Journalist in Whitehall

14 Jim Callaghan Takes Over: ‚ Too Late at 64?

15 Return of the Native: Back to the Mirror

16 A Nation in Discontent: Nothing at the End of the Rainbow

17 1979: The Curtain Falls, Enter Margaret Thatcher

18 Maxwelliana: Cap'n Bob and his Slippery Decks

19 Conclusion: A Funny Old World

References

Index

Abrams, Dr Mark, 103-4

Action, 42-3

Acts of Parliament 167

Employment Act, 167

Industrial Relations Act, 89

Industrial Relations Act, 125

Industrial Relations Act, 143

Industrial Relations Act, 145

Industrial Relations Act, 148

Industrial Relations Act, 151-2

Industrial Relations Act, 167

Industry Act, 148

National Insurance Act, 68

Public Order Act, 38

Adamson, Sir Campbell 176

Aga Khan 69

Aitken, Ian 73

Allen, Alfred 226

Alton, David 233

Annenberg, Walter J. 128

anti-Semitism 10

10

15

20-1

39

62-3

APEX 224

Armstrong, Sir Robert [Lord Ilminster] 155

Army Bureau of Current Affairs 40

40

50

atomic weapons see also

see also

2

93

110

Attlee, Clement [Lord] 2-4

2-4

192

195

205

229

Auden, W. H. 29

29

Baistow, Tom viii

viii

105

Baldwin, Stanley [Lord] 30

30

33

190.

Balogh, Tommy [Lord] 164

Bank of England 4

4

67

Barber, Anthony [Lord] 155

Barnes, Sir Denis 122

122

145

152-3

Barry, Sir Gerald 65-6

Bartholomew, Guy 207

Basnett, David [Lord] 201

201

215

226-7

241

Beavan, John [Lord Ardwick] 80

Beaverbrook, Max [Lord] see also Daily

see also Daily

46

66

102

202

265

Beckett, Sir Terence 230-1

Beecroft, Jimmy 96

Benn, Tony 167

167

177

188

190

194

196-7

199

and GG, 177-8

Berlin 2

49

61

115-16

251

Berlin, Sir Isaiah 273

Bevan, Aneurin 38

38

70-85

92

95

112

123

144

249

and GG, 71-3

and GG, 76

and GG, 81

and Hugh Gaitskell, 74

and Hugh Gaitskell, 78

and Hugh Gaitskell, 80-5

founds NHS, 4

founds NHS, 7

founds NHS, 71-2

health and death, 81

health and death, 93-4

nuclear disarmament, 75-9

political beliefs, xii-xii, 71

political beliefs, xii-xii, 80

political beliefs, xii-xii, 82-5

Beveridge, William [Lord] 4

Bevin, Ernest 5

5

68

101

152

165

Birdsall, Charles 174

174

200

Blair, Tony 41

41

120

141

218

233

248-9

Blum, Leon 38

Boothby, Bob [Lord] 98

Bourne, John 111

Bower, Tom 116

Bowes, Roger 259-61

Bridge on the River Kwai 133

British Union of Fascists 31

31

159

Brittan, Leon [Lord] 245

Brockway, Fenner [Lord] 38

Brown, George [Lord] 95-7

95-7

120-1

127-8

and Harold Wilson, 97

Bullock, Lord 209

209

214

Burgess, John [Stockport 16

Butler, David 160

Butler, R.A.B. [Lord] 198

Butler, Sir Robin 265

Cable Street, battle of 38

Cadbury, Laurence 66-7

66-7

69-70

Calder, Richie [Lord] 67

74-5.

Callaghan, Leonard James [Lord] 89-90

89-90

113

124-7

154

163-5

169

172

182

Labour party leader and Prime Minister, 182-3

Labour party leader and Prime Minister, 187

Labour party leader and Prime Minister, 189-241

Labour party leader and Prime Minister, 246

Labour party leader and Prime Minister, 248-9

Cameron, James viii

75

77

270

272

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 74-5

Campbell, Johnny 62-4

Cardus, Neville 57

Carpenter, Leslie 256

Carr, Robert [Lord] 152

Carthew-Yourston, Brigadier 250

Castle, Barbara [Baroness] 120

122-7

163

191

Chamberlain, Neville 41

Chesterton, Joyce 105

Chiang Ching 138

Chiang Kai-shek 131

China 10

110-11

130-40

Christadelphians 13

Churchill, Sir Winston S. 3

3

6

42

139

196

198

City 149

149

167-8

213

civil service 55

55

174-82

202-5

243

class, xi-xii 36-7

36-7

50-1

96

99

121-2

161

192-3

238

240

248

271

Clause 4

Coal Board 146

146

245

263-4

Cohen, Sir Jack 128

cold war 5

62

74

78

Cole, G.D.H. 112

Cole, John 58

Common Market see

see

93-4

communism xii

xii

18

Communist Party 35

35

37-9

43

58-9

61-4

216

Hornsey branch of, 61-2

St Pancras branch of, 61

concentration camps 54

Confederation of British Industry 168

168

173

176

225

Connor, Sir Bill [Cassandra] 200

Conservative Party 4

17

82

85

98

160-1

210

237-8

Cookson, Leonard Charles 'Cookie' [teacher] 12-13

12-13

20

57.

Counter-Inflation Unit 173-83

173-83

198-201

Cousins, Frank 93

111

Cox, Sir Geoffrey 66

Cripps, Sir Stafford 38

58

Crosland, Tony 179

179

211-12

Crossman, Richard 124

Cruickshank, Robert James [Robin] viii

65-9

Cudlipp, Hugh [Lord] viii

80

88

102-5

108

118-19

158-9

175

199-200

206-8

219

257-8

Cudlipp, Percy 67

Cultural Revolution 130-40

Cummings, Arthur John 66-7

Cursley, Norman 69

Curtis, Michael 69

d'Estaing, Valery Giscard 183-4

Daily Express see also Beaverbrook

see also Beaverbrook

Ma

70

73

133

208

254

Daily Herald 71

71

79-80

118

132

159-60

becomes Sun, 101

becomes Sun, 103-5

of, 37

of, 70

of, 79

origins and pre-war, 37

origins and pre-war, 75

origins and pre-war, 101-2

Daily Mail 52

52

114

supports Mosley, 35-6

Daily Mirror ix

ix

70-1

116

132-3

140-2

146-7

155

158-62

170

172-5

206-10

219-24

227

234-9

244

247-8

250-68

Daily Record 234

234

259

Daily Sketch 270

Daily Worker 37

37

Daly, Lawrence 152

Darwin, Charles xiii

xiii

273

Day Lewis, Cecil 39

de Gaulle, General Charles 49

Delano, Tony 116

Delmer, Sefton 270

Deng Shao-ping 138

devolution 233

Dewey, Thomas 144

Dimitrov, Georgy 66

Donoughue, Bernard [Lord] 185

185

230

Donovan Commission 120-2

120-2

125

Donovan, Lord see also

Dorril, Stephen 168

Drain, Geoffrey 226.

Driberg, Tom 201

economic strategy 167-8

Eden. Anthony [Lord Avon] 74

Edwards, Bob 254

261

264

EEC 167

Eisenhower, Dwight 74

Elias, Julius Salter [Lord 101

Elizabeth II, Queen 6

109-10

Elliott, John 147

English Journey 39

Europe see

148

150

European Community see also

European Economic Community [EEC] see also

Evans, Moss 226

226

Evening Standard 77

fascism see also British

see also British

8

34-9

51-2

54

59

115

Feather, Victor [Lord] 125-6

125-6

148-9

153

Festival of Britain 65

Financial Times 111

147

Finer, Sir Morris 200-2

First World War, xi-xii 24-5

24-5

27

Fisher, Alan 241

Fitt, Gerry [Lord] 233

Fleming, Ann 93

Foot, Jill 227

Foot, Michael 73-5

73-5

81

164

173-4

197

212-13

227-8

and GG, 73-4

becomes Labour Party leader, 246-9

contests Labour Party leadership, 190-1

Foot, Paul 263

Ford Motor Company 230

242

Forrest, Willie 66-7

Franco, General 10

Freud, Sigmund 273

Freud, Sir Clement 106

106

Fromm, Erich 45

Gaitskell, Dora 94-5

Gaitskell, Hugh 5

93-6

183

and Aneurin Bevan, 74

and Aneurin Bevan, 78

and Aneurin Bevan, 80-5

and GG, 95

Galbraith, John Kenneth 273-4

Gallagher, Willie 37

Gang of Four 191

246-8

general elections [ 29-31

[ 29-31

[ 31

[ 46

[ 50

[ 66

[ 70

[ 75

[ 80-5

[ 93

[ 98

[ 103

[ 106-8

[ 110

[ 110-12

[ 112

[ 124-8.

[ 128.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849642286

1849642281

OCLC:

654103857