The Tories by Alan Clark

The Tories by Alan Clark

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This text examines how the Conservative Party often seems to have neglected the apparent interest of the nation state in the 20th century, perceiving its real interest as being best served, above all other factors, by the perpetuation of the Party in office.

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The Tories by Alan Clark

Britain's most controversial historian and diarist on 75 years of the Conservative Party and its, in his view, failure to staunch the decline of Britain as a nation-state.
Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three vols) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by teh BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.
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ISBN 13 9780297818496
ISBN 10 029781849X
Title The Tories
Author Alan Clark
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1998-09-22
Number of pages 416
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