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Synopsis
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.
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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! Tristram Hunt is a former Labour Party politician and the author of Marx's General.
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The leading character is a magnificent piece of portraiture and round him revolves a number of brilliantly observed characters. Not for a long time have I enjoyed a book so much." —Daily Telegraph
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