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Francis Beckett

Fascist in the Family

The Tragedy of John Beckett M.P

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John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness.But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley's fascists, and one of Britain's three best known anti-Semites. Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew.a Her ancestors were Solomons, Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia. He successfully hid his Jewish ancestry all his life - he said his mother's family were &quote;fisher folk from the east coast.&quote; His son, the author of this book, acclaimed political biographer and journalist Francis Beckett, did not discover the truth unt… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-317-41602-9
  • EAN: 9781317416029
  • Produktnummer: 21414420
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 396 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'556 KB
  • Abbildungen: 19 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 18 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen

Über den Autor


Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, playwright and contemporary historian. His eighteen books include biographies of four Prime Ministers, the first of which is about his own political hero, Clement Attlee. He has written for several national newspapers, but mostly for the Guardian, for which he was a regular feature writer and reviewer for many years. His plays have been performed on radio and at the London Fringe. He is a former president of the National Union of Journalists and a Labour Party and trade union press officer and editor, and is currently editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age.

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