Aneurin Bevan: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures in twentieth-century British politics burned as brightly — or as controversially — as Aneurin Bevan, the Welsh miner's son who rose to become one of Labour's most formidable and visionary statesmen. Vincent Brome's authoritative biography chronicles the life of the man who, as Minister of Health, architected the National Health Service — arguably the most transformative social reform in modern British history — tracing his journey from the coalfields of Tredegar to the turbulent corridors of Westminster. Brome writes with the precision of a journalist and the sensitivity of a literary biographer, capturing Bevan's fierce oratory, his passionate socialism, and the internal battles that defined his complex relationship with the Labour movement. This portrait illuminates not only the man but the era — a Britain battered by war and yearning for reconstruction — and leaves the reader asking what becomes of a giant when the institutions he builds begin to outgrow him.
Author: Vincent Brome
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures in twentieth-century British politics burned as brightly — or as controversially — as Aneurin Bevan, the Welsh miner's son who rose to become one of Labour's most formidable and visionary statesmen. Vincent Brome's authoritative biography chronicles the life of the man who, as Minister of Health, architected the National Health Service — arguably the most transformative social reform in modern British history — tracing his journey from the coalfields of Tredegar to the turbulent corridors of Westminster. Brome writes with the precision of a journalist and the sensitivity of a literary biographer, capturing Bevan's fierce oratory, his passionate socialism, and the internal battles that defined his complex relationship with the Labour movement. This portrait illuminates not only the man but the era — a Britain battered by war and yearning for reconstruction — and leaves the reader asking what becomes of a giant when the institutions he builds begin to outgrow him.