An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals - Hardcover

Toynbee, Polly

 
9781838958350: An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1838958355 ISBN 13: 9781838958350
Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

'Fascinating' Spectator
'Entertaining' Sunday Times
'Enthralling' Guardian
'Beautiful, funny and moving' Daily Mail
'Compelling and moving' Observer
'Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotes' Financial Times

While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality?

Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop - Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Polly Toynbee is a journalist, author and broadcaster. A Guardian columnist and broadcaster, she was formerly the BBC's social affairs editor. She has written for the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times and been an editor at the Washington Monthly. She has won numerous awards including a National Press Award and the Orwell Prize for Journalism.

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Verlag
Atlantic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1838958355
ISBN 13 
9781838958350
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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