The Journals Of Woodrow Wyatt (Three-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few figures in twentieth-century British public life possessed the singular vantage point of Woodrow Wyatt — industrialist, politician, journalist, and confidant to prime ministers — whose candid private diaries offer an unfiltered window into the corridors of power at Westminster. The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, meticulously edited by Sarah Curtis and published across three volumes, chronicles the turbulent decades of British politics from the later Thatcher years through Major's uncertain premiership and into the dawn of the Blair era, capturing intimate portraits of the great and the controversial with wit, irreverence, and unflinching honesty. Wyatt's prose is that of a man who relished controversy and cultivated friendships across the political spectrum, giving these journals a rare biographical richness that transcends mere political commentary. Spanning the ideological earthquakes of the late twentieth century, the three-volume set presents a mosaic of power, personality, and consequence that historians and political enthusiasts alike will find indispensable. Edited with scholarly care, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt stands as both a primary historical document and a compulsively readable memoir — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of what shaped modern Britain was decided not in Parliament, but over dinner.
Author: Sarah Curtis (ed)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1998, Macmillan
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few figures in twentieth-century British public life possessed the singular vantage point of Woodrow Wyatt — industrialist, politician, journalist, and confidant to prime ministers — whose candid private diaries offer an unfiltered window into the corridors of power at Westminster. The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, meticulously edited by Sarah Curtis and published across three volumes, chronicles the turbulent decades of British politics from the later Thatcher years through Major's uncertain premiership and into the dawn of the Blair era, capturing intimate portraits of the great and the controversial with wit, irreverence, and unflinching honesty. Wyatt's prose is that of a man who relished controversy and cultivated friendships across the political spectrum, giving these journals a rare biographical richness that transcends mere political commentary. Spanning the ideological earthquakes of the late twentieth century, the three-volume set presents a mosaic of power, personality, and consequence that historians and political enthusiasts alike will find indispensable. Edited with scholarly care, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt stands as both a primary historical document and a compulsively readable memoir — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of what shaped modern Britain was decided not in Parliament, but over dinner.