{"product_id":"2026100007422-secondhand-like-the-roman-the-life-of-enoch-powell","title":"Like The Roman: The Life Of Enoch Powell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in twentieth-century British politics provoked as fierce a reaction as Enoch Powell — a man of towering intellect, fierce conviction, and spectacular controversy. Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer presents a sweeping and authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of one of Britain's most complex and divisive statesmen, chronicling his extraordinary journey from a working-class Birmingham childhood to the heights of government, and his ultimate fall from grace following the incendiary 1968 Rivers of Blood speech that would define — and haunt — his legacy forever.\n\nHeffer, a distinguished journalist and historian, brings formidable scholarly rigour to his subject, drawing on extensive archive research and personal interviews to construct a portrait that is neither hagiography nor hatchet job, but a serious and unflinching examination of a man who argued passionately — and often presciently — about immigration, sovereignty, and the very nature of British national identity. The title itself, drawn from Virgil's Aeneid — the same classical text Powell quoted in his infamous speech — signals the book's ambition to place its subject within the grand sweep of history. For readers who wish to understand the forces that continue to shape British political life, this biography poses a question that demands an answer: was Enoch Powell a prophet, a monster, or simply a man too far ahead of his time?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130996138203,"sku":"2026100007422-SECONDHAND","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/efcc19b9-89c5-43a9-9725-122e4467705f.png?v=1786594003","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007422-secondhand-like-the-roman-the-life-of-enoch-powell","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}