Years Of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers 1940-1962

Description

This volume of Benn's diaries covers the event for which he is probably most famous - the renunciation of his peerage - as well as revealing the beginnings of his career, touching on his schooldays, RAF service during the war, and early involvement with politics. As a young man, he had dealings with Attlee, Bevan, Morrison, Gaitskell and all the other major politicians of the post-war Labour government. More personal than previously published volumes of Benn's diaries, this one draws upon letters and other documents, as well as the diaries themselves.

Radical statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, Tony Benn is the pre-eminent diarist of his generation. His political activity continued after 'retirement' through mass meetings, broadcasts and in more recent years through social media. A widower since 2000, Tony Benn died at his home in London on 14th March 2014.