The Time of My Life

Denis Healey

ISBN 10: 0718131142 / ISBN 13: 9780718131142

Published by Michael Joseph Limited, London, United Kingdom, 1989

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Hardcover very Scarce Signed to Micheala by Dennis Heally he invigorating memoirs of a leading politican, this book is also the autobiography of a splendid Englishman who is liked and admired across the political spectrum. Denis Healey was born in a year of revolution, 1917. Hew grew up in Yorkshire and at Oxford began to test and expand his political views. As the title suggests, this book is more than a political memoir. Denis Healey has witnessed the great changes that have taken place in Britian since the war, and often taken a decisive hand in them. From Atlee and Bevan through to Mrs. Thatcher it has not only been the political landscape that has been transformed as town and country bore witness to the great social, technological, and demographic revolutions. Denis Healey's wide-ranging intelligence brilliantly counterpoints the pace of change and ranges further, into literature, art, music, and his speciality, photography. The memoirs of a man in the round; a great politician, speaker, writer, and above all friend and family man, this book will inspire all who read it with the warmth, wit and wisdom of Denis Healey. Illustrated. 607 pages. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time of My Life
• Publisher: Michael Joseph Limited, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718131142
• ISBN 13: 9780718131142
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition 3rd Impression
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: By Author Dennis Heally
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

An autobiography of Britain's foremost politician who, in his range of interests, in the brilliance of his mind, and in his ability to write is probably unique among figures in English public life. Healey grew up in Yorkshire and, after Oxford, joined the army at the outbreak of war. He became a Labour MP in 1952 and has been Minister of Defence and Chancellor.

From Publishers Weekly

Oxford graduate Healey, a leader of Britain's Labor Party for more than 40 years who narrowly missed becoming prime minister, presents a lucid account of many of today's major controversies, including nuclear disarmament and dealings with the Third World. In these "very expansive and gripping memoirs" according to PW , "Healey . . . offers extraordinarily interesting observations on American leaders and policies of the post-WW II period." Photos.
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