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Title: OUT OF THE WILDERNESS
DIARIES 1963-67
By: Tony Benn
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0099586703
ISBN 13: 9780099586708
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Publisher: CORNERSTONE
Pub. date: 15 September, 1988
Pages: 608
Description: An account on the author's relations with the industrialists, television and press chiefs, the Palace and the diplomatic world as well as trade unionists, civil servants, and his Cabinet colleagues. It reveals the workings of our political and economic systems at the highest level. It offers a political record of the 1960s.
Synopsis: 1963 saw Labour's emergence from its 'wilderness years' in Opposition, and the election of Harold Wilson following the unexpected death of Hugh Gaitskell. In the first Wilson government of 1964 Benn was made Postmaster General and became known as an innovator for his introduction of the Giro and arguing for a radical broadcasting policy. After Labour's landslide victory of 1966 he was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of Technology, but Labour's honeymoon came to an abrupt end in 1967 with the introduction of devaluation, leading to disilliusionment with the Government. Tony Benn's account on his relations with the industrialists, television and press chiefs, the Palace and the diplomatic world as well as trade unionists, civil servants, and his Cabinet colleagues, reveals the workings of our political and economic systems at the highest level. Out of the Wilderness is a unique political record of the 1960s, told by a man who served in five Labour administrations and who today is one of the most experienced figures both in and out of the House of Commons.'No-one interested in the political influence of the Crown, the intrigues of the civil service or the highly traditionalist character of Harold Wilson can afford to ignore it' The Observer.
Illustrations: illustrations, index
Publication: UK
Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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