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Outside In - Couverture souple

Hain, Peter

 
9781849544108: Outside In
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1849544107 ISBN 13 : 9781849544108
Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Peter Hain s has been an extraordinary life. He has held an array of glittering posts in the British political firmament, from key roles in the Foreign Office and the Department of Trade and Industry, to leadership of the Commons and brokering the 2007 devolution settlement in Northern Ireland. Formerly an outsider he became an insider , as one of the government s most effective ministers. Underpinning Hain s career is a tradition of political campaigning stretching back nearly four decades; the political values he holds today springing directly from the injustices he witnessed when he was growing up, and which drew him into politics in the first place. His journey to become a British Cabinet Minister started on a different continent. Growing up as a child in Pretoria, South Africa, life changed irrevocably when a close family friend was hanged by the apartheid government. Before that the security police had taken his activist parents away in the middle of the night. Later, in Britain, he was sent a letter bomb. As the eldest child, Hain was left to look after his younger brother and two small sisters. Thus began his career as a militant anti-apartheid protester. When his parents were released, the state made the lives of Peter and his family unbearably difficult. Far from the bloated memoirs of a former government insider, this is the story of a courageous, campaigning life that is intrinsically bound up with the destiny of South Africa.

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À propos de l'auteur

PETER HAIN is the Labour MP for Neath. He has served as Leader of the House of Commons, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

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Éditeur
Biteback Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849544107
ISBN 13 
9781849544108
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
464
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Personne responsable
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