Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. Hamer's trajectory is mirrored by the rise of the Labour movement in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1930s.
This wonderfully perceptive study of a career politician serves as a telling elegy for the Labour Party.
Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! afterwards reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).
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Paperback. Etat : Fair. 640 pages. Spine faded and worn, text tanned Fame is the Spur is the story of Hamer Shawcross and of his rise from boyhood in poor circumstances in Manchester to the rank of Cabinet Minister. Arrogant, irresistible, raffish and ambitious, his golden phrases marking him as an orator , you may not wish to like him, but he is real. And so, too, is his wife, Ann, w hose tender and passionate love for Hamer shines out over the whole story. N° de réf. du vendeur 907c
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