Letters To My Grandchildren - Couverture souple

Benn, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099539098 ISBN 13 : 9780099539094

Editeur : Arrow, 2010

Synopsis

Letters to My Grandchildren As a diarist, I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Acclaim for More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007

'A delight and an inspiration. Fiercely intelligent, warm, humane and profoundly moving.' Clare Allan, Books of the Year, Independent

'Don't miss this volume.' Peter Lewis, Books of the Year, Daily Mail

'This is a lovely book; warm, humane, genuinely revelatory and, on occasions, a touch surreal... He skewers Blair and New Labour with great precision.' Rod Liddle, Sunday Times

'There is a new kind of freedom in his thoughts and in his writing. He may not have achieved the liberation of mankind, but perhaps he has achieved something almost as difficult: the liberation of himself.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

'There is something amusing on almost every page of these diaries.Tony Benn loves paradox, and looking at things from a different angle to the one you might expect.He tells us at the start that the old have a great deal to learn from the young, and a delightful air of unreality hangs over his writing.' Daily Telegraph

'If you thought there'd be less politics you've reckoned without his tireless campaigning against the Iraq War, his presidency of the Stop the War Coalition, his visit to Baghdad to interview Saddam Hussein and countless media appearances to air his anti-war views' Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur :

As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.

The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made.

Certainly at my age I have learned an enormous amount from the study of history - not so much from the political leaders of the time but from those who struggled for justice and explained the world in a way that shows the continuity of history and has inspired me to do my work.

Normality for any individual is what the world is like on the day they are born. The normality of the young is wholly different from the normality of their grandparents.

It is the disentangling of the real questions from the day to day business of politics that may make sense for those who take up the task as they will do.

Every generation has to fight the same battles as their ancestors had to fight, again and again, for there is no final victory and no final defeat. Two flames have burned from the beginning of time - the flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope. If this book serves its purpose it will fan both flames.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099539098
• ISBN 13: 9780099539094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176