Book description
Michael Foot's biography of Nye Bevan is one of the great political
biographies of the last century. Originally published in two volumes
(1962 and 1973), Faber Finds is reissuing it in the same way. The
first volume covers Bevan's life from his birth in 1897 to his entry
into Atlee's Cabinet in 1945: the second covers his years from 1945 to
his death in 1960. Nye Bevan, forever associated with the formation of
the National Health Service, is arguably Britain's greatest socialist.
This biography, written with passion and unashamed admiration, is a
magnificent celebration of a great life.
Michael Foot (born 1913) is a writer, journalist and politician,
leading the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. His numerous books range
from the withering polemic Guilty Men (co-written with Peter Howard and
Frank Owen) about the hapless appeasers of the 1930s, a scholarly work
on Jonathan Swift, The Pen and the Sword, to his magnificent two-volume
biography of Aneurin Bevan. The last two works are being reissued in
Faber Finds.
