Baroness Cox by Andrew Boyd

Baroness Cox by Andrew Boyd

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Tells the story of Baroness Cox's humble beginnings as a nurse and her subsequent nine-year fight as a sociology lecturer and Labour supporter against intimidation by the hard left. This is a biography of a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and indefatigable human rights campaigner.

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Baroness Cox by Andrew Boyd

In this compelling biography, Andrew Boyd tells the story of Baroness Cox's humble beginnings as a nurse and her subsequent nine-year fight as a sociology lecturer and Labour supporter against intimidation by the hard left. Caroline Cox's secret expeditions to buy freedom for slaves captured by Arab traders in Sudan's war against black Africans. This is just one campaign in the Baroness's tireless patrol of the world's least glamorous causes. Her elevation to the peerage by Margaret Thatcher enabled her to draw greater attention to the causes she espoused. And she was not afraid to put her own life at risk to do so, as she frequently did during her numerous, hazardous treks into first Communist Poland and Moscow, then warring Nagorno Karabakh, Burma and north-east Africa on behalf of Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
Andrew Boyd is a jounalist and writer who has travelled with Baroness Cox on her human rights missions. He covered her Sudan slavery trip for The Sunday Telegraph and the BBC in November 1995. He is the author of a number of books and the editor of Christian Solidarity Worldwide's magazine.
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ISBN 13 9780745937359
ISBN 10 0745937357
Title Baroness Cox
Author Andrew Boyd
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher SPCK Publishing
Year published 2006-07-22
Number of pages 448
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