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Author | : Margaret Renn |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2024-09-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1804291900 |
A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justice Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. For nearly fifty years, he was the scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen, a champion of the underdog. In this, the first biography of Paul Foot, journalist Margaret Renn traces Foot’s personal, political and professional trajectories, placing his life and works within the long arc of postwar Britain. Drawing on extensive interviews with those close to him, and utilizing her unparalleled knowledge of his prodigious output, the book brings the many different faces of Paul Foot together into a single portrait. A prolific writer for the Daily Mirror, Private Eye, the Guardian and Socialist Worker, Foot’s investigations broke numerous major stories. He wrote about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, and the issues in some of his campaigns maintained their prominence long after his death in 2004: police corruption in the Stephen Lawrence case; sexual abuse in children’s homes; the Lockerbie bombing. His books ranged from how politicians used race to win votes, through miscarriages of justice, to the politics of poetry and the failure of the vote to deliver power to the people. Paul Foot: A Life in Politics is a brilliant portrait of a committed and active socialist, orator and relentless investigator of wrongdoing.
Author | : Paul Foot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Tariq Ali |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 178663600X |
One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement What makes a young radical? Reissued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, Street Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of an era of hope and passion as Tariq Ali tracks the growing significance of the 1960s protest movement, as well as his own formation as a leading political activist. Through his personal story, he recounts a counter-history of a sixties rocked by the Prague Spring, student protests on the streets of Europe and America, the effects of the Vietnam war, and the aftermath of the revolutionary insurgencies led by Che Guevara. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. This edition includes the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono In 1971.
Author | : Paul Foot |
Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author argues that james Hanratty was wrongfully convicted and hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten.
Author | : Paul Foot |
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Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Homicide |
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Author | : Paul Seden |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2014-05-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1743434154 |
A lively and endearing story about a child in an Indigenous community getting ready to play his favourite game - footy! SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Crichton Award for New Illustrators, 2015 I pull the sock on my left foot I pull the sock on my right foot I lace up the boot on my left foot I lace up the boot on my right foot . It's time for footy! A cheerful, energetic story about a young boy playing Australia's favourite game. This book was produced through the Emerging Indigenous Picture Book Mentoring Project, a joint initiative between The Little Big Book Club and Allen & Unwin, assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Author | : Tony Cliff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This autobiography is the last written work of the single most influential socialist revolutionary in post-war Britain. It charts Tony Cliff's extraordinary development from his awakenings in Palestine to a disenchanted Britain in 2000
Author | : Paul Foot |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Terry L. Jones |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807151610 |
Sometimes called the "wharf rats from New Orleans" and the "lowest scrapings of the Mississippi," Lee's Tigers were the approximately twelve thousand Louisiana infantrymen who served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from the time of the campaign at First Manassas to the final days of the war at Appomattox. Terry L. Jones offers a colorful, highly readable account of this notorious group of soldiers renowned not only for their drunkenness and disorderly behavior in camp but for their bravery in battle. It was this infantry that held back the initial Federal onslaught at First Manassas, made possible General Stonewall Jackson's famed Valley Campaign, contained the Union breakthrough at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle, and led Lee's last offensive actions at Fort Stedman and Appomattox.Despite all their vices, Lee's Tigers emerged from the Civil War with one of the most respected military records of any group of southern soldiers. According to Jones, the unsavory reputation of the Tigers was well earned, for Louisiana probably had a higher percentage of criminals, drunkards, and deserters in its commands than any other Confederate state. The author spices his narrative with well-chosen anecdotes-among them an account of one of the stormiest train rides in military history. While on their way to Virginia, the enlisted men of Coppens' Battalion uncoupled their officers' car from the rest of the train and proceeded to partake of their favorite beverages. Upon arriving in Montgomery, the battalion embarked upon a drunken spree of harassment, vandalism, and robbery. Meanwhile, having commandeered another locomotive, the officers arrived and sprang from their train with drawn revolvers to put a stop to the disorder. "The charge of the Light Brigade," one witness recalled, "was surpassed by these irate Creoles." Lee's Tigers is the first study to utilize letters, diaries, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of these soldiers. Jones supplies the first major work to focus solely on Louisiana's infantry in Lee's army throughout the course of the war. Civil War buffs and scholars alike will find Lee's Tigers a valuable addition to their libraries.
Author | : Chris Nineham |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2019-10-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1789043301 |
What happens if a radical government gets elected in Britain? How will the banks, the civil servants, the media and the military react? Is the idea of a British coup far-fetched? How can the left prepare? Chris Nineham addresses these questions by looking behind the myths at the reality of two hundred years of British state rule. He brings us a warning from history. Don’t be fooled again, read this book.