num_pages: 288
description: Alastair Campbell sits in the Cabinet, has an overview of government denied to ministers with control over the flow of information. Here is chronicled his Rabelaisian early years as a busker, porn-merchant and hard-drinking Fleet Street pugilist until a nervous breakdown in mid 1980s led to his conversion to focused political animal.
language: English
title: Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the rise of the media class
titlecomplete: Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the rise of the media class
genres: Politics, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Aurum Press