Un autor británico se sumerge en el papel de político y escritor de izquierda, con obras literarias centradas en la historia política británica y el comentario social. Su escritura se caracteriza por una aguda perspicacia en los procesos políticos y una profunda comprensión de las fuerzas sociales que dan forma a una nación. El enfoque del autor es tanto analítico como accesible, lo que permite a los lectores comprender las complejidades de la política. Sus escritos ofrecen una perspectiva atemporal sobre el panorama político y continúan resonando en aquellos interesados en la historia política y el pensamiento intelectual.
El capitán Gulliver viaja a fabulosos países, como Liliput, sin sospechar que le apresarán sus diminutos habitantes; y a Brobdingnag, poblado por gigantes que le exhiben como una rareza hasta que entra al servicio de la reina. Desembarca en la isla voladora Laputa, hábitat de sabios ridículos, y finaliza su aventura en el país de los houyhnhnms, donde el hombre -yahoo- vive sometido al poder del caballo.
The Alternative to the Thatcher Society
When Aneurin Bevan died in 1960 he was acclaimed as an outstanding political figure, a parliamentary debater of the first order and a man of courage and personal magnetism. Yet he spent his life at the centre of a ferocious political controversy. This biography unravels the details of his life.
Disappointment can be salutary. In the 1955 election Michael Foot surprisingly lost his seat. Until then he had been a journalist, albeit a prolific and influential one. He now had more time on his hands. To both his father, Isaac Foot, and himself Jonathan Swift was a hero. His father, who believed writing to be the supreme vocation, now encouraged him to write a book on Swift. The result was The Pen and the Sword. Michael Foot concentrates on the crucial two years of 1710-11. In that time Swift published one of his most devastating polemics The Conduct of the Allies that tore into the Whig government and the Duke of Marlborough in particular. It is an important moment in English History: the pen and the sword fought a duel, and the pen proved the stronger of the two.First published in 1957 it was well and widely reviewed. 'Enthralling ... a fine piece of historical writing.' Spectator 'An exciting story excellently narrated ... a lucid guide to one of the most complicated patterns of intrigue and manoeuvre that the eighteenth-century can provide ... intensely dramatic.' Harold Nicolson, Observer