Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott
Hugh Dalton was one of the most effective and strangest of modern political leaders. Born the son of a tutor to royal princes, Dalton was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he was taught by Maynard Keynes, fell under the spell of Rupert Brooke, and learned about socialism from Keir Hardie and Beatrice Webb. He entered Parliament in 1924, and for three decades his impact on government policy and on the leadership, organization and philosophy of the Labour party was immense. In this biography, Pimlott makes use of official records, interviews, private papers and the hitherto unpublished Dalton diaries.Ben Pimlott was the Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at Birkbeck College, London. He was the author of Labour and the Left in the 1930s (1977), Hugh Dalton (1985) which won the Whitbread Prize for Biography, Harold Wilson (1992) and Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks (1994). He was a political columnist for The Times, New Statesman and Sunday Times and reviewed regularly for the Independent on Sunday, Guardian and Observer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006384175 |
| ISBN 10 | 000638417X |
| Title | Hugh Dalton |
| Author | Ben Pimlott |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1995-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 768 |
| Prizes | Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 1984 |
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