Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words - Softcover

Clark, Alan

 
9780753826737: Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753826739 ISBN 13: 9780753826737
Verlag: W&N, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. He was the Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton (1972-1992) and for Kensington and Chelsea (1997-1999). He held various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments. He kept a regular diary, which was published in three volumes as IN POWER 1983-1992, INTO POLITICS 1972-1982 and THE LAST DIARIES 1993-1999. They were adapted for television by the BBC and shown in 2004. Clark died in 1999 of a brain tumour.

Ion Trewin is a London publisher. Originally a journalist, he was Literary Editor of The Times 1972-79. He was Alan Clark's editor and publisher for the original 'Diaries' and following his death edited two further volumes of the celebrated diaries. In 2008 he edited and introduced THE HUGO YOUNG PAPERS: Thirty Years of British Politics Off the Record (Allen Lane) which won the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award 2009. Married with a son who is a literary agent and a daughter who is a teacher, he has since 2006 been literary director of the Man Booker prizes. He was chairman of the Cheltenham Literature Festival 1996-2007.

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Verlag
W&N
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753826739
ISBN 13 
9780753826737
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
784
Herausgeber
Trewin Ion
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