Tony Benn
Subtitle: a political life
By: David Powell.
Edition: New ed., rev. ed.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Benn, Tony, 1925-; Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Genres: Biography.
Description: "David Powell's fascinating biography traces Tony Benn's extraordinary fifty-year political career from the day he first entered the House of Commons in 1950. Benn has always been a controversial figure. Nonetheless many of the policies he championed, including some for which he was widely belittled, have since entered the statute books. Indeed, if history is a chronicle of ironies, there can have been little more ironic than when, following Benn's valedictory speech in the Commons in 2001, a Tory backbencher commended him to fellow MPs as Britain's 'greatest living Parliamentarian.'"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-196) and index.