Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’S Ruthless Plot for Power - Couverture rigide

Bower, Tom

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0008299579 ISBN 13 : 9780008299576

Editeur : William Collins, 2019

Synopsis

Unmissable new biography of Jeremy Corbyn from our best investigative biographer

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Bower is an investigative historian, broadcaster and journalist. A former producer and reporter for BBC Television for 25 years, he is the bestselling author of over 25 books, including: Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, Rebel King: The Making of a Monarch and Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power. He lives in London with his wife.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

After four unremarkable decades in politics, Jeremy Corbyn stands on the brink of power. Until his surprise election as leader of the Labour Party in 2015, this seemingly unelectable oddball had not been a major political player. Since then, Corbyn has survived coup attempts and accusations of incompetence that would have felled most politicians, including grave charges of anti-Semitism, bullying and not being the master of his brief. Despite these shortcomings, and if the Conservatives successfully rip themselves apart over Europe, he is likely soon to become Britain's prime minister.

Yet this hero of the far left, with his repeatedly stated commitment to improve the lives of the impoverished, fight injustice, champion equality and destroy greed, has done his best to conceal much of his past and personal life from public scrutiny. In this book, best-selling investigative biographer Tom Bower reveals hidden truths about Corbyn's character, the causes and organisations he espouses, and Britain's likely fate under the Marxist-Trotskyist society he has championed since the early 1970s.

Based on eyewitness accounts from those who have known Corbyn throughout his life, the book asks whether a Labour government led by Corbyn would transform the country for the better. Has capitalism, as he argues, run its course, and would our lives be improved by socialism? If so, what is Corbyn's brand of socialism? The same as that experienced under successive Labour governments since 1945, or something more extreme? Will his advocacy of more debt, tax hikes and renationalisation reproduce the fate of Venezuela as championed by his own hero Hugo Chávez? Is he a reformer or a revolutionary? Will he deliver a glowing new era or catastrophe?

His supporters damn every opponent, castigating each critic, even sympathetic ones, as 'traitors' or worse. Does this aggression, and the accusations that paint Corbyn as an entrenched anti-Semite and misogynist, override his image as an authentic 'good bloke' blessed with everlasting politeness?

Many are excited by the prospect of Corbyn’s arrival in Downing Street. Others believe that Corbyn as prime minister will prove to be a dangerous hero.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Collins
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0008299579
• ISBN 13: 9780008299576
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
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