'New Statesman': Portrait of a Political Weekly 1913-1931

ISBN-13: 9780714641690 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 340 str.

Adrian Smith; Adrian Smith

Opis

This volume reveals how a fledgling Fabian journal came to play a key role in the growth of the modern Labour Party. Placing the early New Statesman in the context of its eight turbulent decades as a flagship of the Left, the book compares the magazine's first journalists with later generations of editors and writers. By drawing upon interviews with survivors, and a wide range of public and personal papers, the author rediscovers the early - and lasting - importance of the British Left's best-known and most resilient magazine.

Spis treści

Political Studies- "...cleverly integrates the intellectual flavour of the early Labour Party with that of the then developing New Statesman."



Albion- "Smith writes well, and his concise, epigrammatic prose enlivens the book enormously."



English Historical Review- "Smith"s account is generally authoritative and engagingly written."



New Statesman and Society- " an illuminating- and surprisingly entertaining- book"



The Financial Times- " Adrian Smith aims to "rehabilitate:" the pre-Martin New Statesman and he makes a good job of it"



The Times Higher Education Supplement- " a lucid, readable book"



Choice-" Those who appreciate a clear, perceptive, and meticulously crafted book will applaud Smith"s work

O autorze

Adrian Smith