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- English
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About this book
Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. For nearly fifty years, he was the scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen, a champion of the underdog.
In this, the first biography of Paul Foot, journalist Margaret Renn traces Foot's personal, political and professional trajectories, placing his life and works within the long arc of postwar Britain. Drawing on extensive interviews with those close to him, and utilizing her unparalleled knowledge of his prodigious output, the book brings the many different faces of Paul Foot together into a single portrait.
A prolific writer for the Daily Mirror, Private Eye, the Guardian and Socialist Worker, Foot's investigations broke numerous major stories. He wrote about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, and the issues in some of his campaigns maintained their prominence long after his death in 2004: police corruption in the Stephen Lawrence case; sexual abuse in children's homes; the Lockerbie bombing. His books ranged from how politicians used race to win votes, through miscarriages of justice, to the politics of poetry and the failure of the vote to deliver power to the people. Paul Foot: A Life in Politics is a brilliant portrait of a committed and active socialist, orator and relentless investigator of wrongdoing.
In this, the first biography of Paul Foot, journalist Margaret Renn traces Foot's personal, political and professional trajectories, placing his life and works within the long arc of postwar Britain. Drawing on extensive interviews with those close to him, and utilizing her unparalleled knowledge of his prodigious output, the book brings the many different faces of Paul Foot together into a single portrait.
A prolific writer for the Daily Mirror, Private Eye, the Guardian and Socialist Worker, Foot's investigations broke numerous major stories. He wrote about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, and the issues in some of his campaigns maintained their prominence long after his death in 2004: police corruption in the Stephen Lawrence case; sexual abuse in children's homes; the Lockerbie bombing. His books ranged from how politicians used race to win votes, through miscarriages of justice, to the politics of poetry and the failure of the vote to deliver power to the people. Paul Foot: A Life in Politics is a brilliant portrait of a committed and active socialist, orator and relentless investigator of wrongdoing.
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Table of contents
- CoverĀ
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- ContentsĀ
- Introduction: Our Left Foot
- 1. Mangoes in the Bath
- 2. An Inky Little Boy
- 3. Paradise on Earth
- 4. No Mean City
- 5. The Leper
- 6. A Bee to the Honeypot
- 7. Tightnits
- 8. Who Killed Hanratty?
- 9. One Glorious Summer
- 10. Y, Oh Lord, Oh Why
- 11. Vote for Foot
- 12. Honey on the Elbow
- 13. The Ditto Man
- 14. Poetry and Revolution
- 15. Look in the Mirror
- 16. The Enemy Within
- 17. Pamphleteer
- 18. Baldricās Cunning Plan
- 19. Who Killed Carl Bridgewater?
- 20. A Rattling Good Yarn
- 21. To Divide Is Not to Take Away
- 22. The Hired Bravos
- 23. The Great Crook
- 24. Back to the Honeypot
- 25. Head and Heart
- 26. Skinning the Tiger
- 27. Perfidious Financial Idiocy
- 28. The White Radiance of Eternity
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography of Paul Foot Works
- Notes
- Index