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Harold Laski : a life on the left
- Title
- Harold Laski : a life on the left / Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman.
- Author
- Kramnick, Isaac.
- Publication
- New York : Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | JC257.L4 K73 1993 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Sheerman, Barry.
- Description
- xii, 669 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [636]-654) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: The Public Intellectual -- Pt. I. Apprenticeship: 1893-1920. Ch. 1. 'Manchester Born and Manchester Bred'. Ch. 2. Frida and Eugenics. Ch. 3. Oxford, Feminism and Syndicalism. Ch. 4. Montreal and Making Connections. Ch. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts and Pluralism. Ch. 6. The Boston Police Strike -- Pt. II. Making It: The 1920s. Ch. 7. 'Rapidly Shot Up into Prominence'. Ch. 8. Married Life. Ch. 9. Centre Stage: The Labour Party, India and The Grammar of Politics. Ch. 10. The General Strike, the LSE and Communism. Ch. 11. The Labour Government, Palestine and 'Real Political Influence' -- Pt. III. The 'Age of Laski': the 1930s. Ch. 12. MacDonald's 'Betrayal' and the Socialist League. Ch. 13. The London School of Economics and the 'Dangerous Teacher'. Ch. 14. Workers, Kings and Fascists. Ch. 15. The Left Book Club, the United Front and Soviet Russia. Ch. 16. America, The Popular Front and Britain Goes to War -- Pt. IV. Disillusion: the 1940s.
- Ch. 17. War and 'Revolution by Consent'. Ch. 18. War and Breakdown. Ch. 19. Labour's Triumph and 'A Period of Silence'. Ch. 20. The Trial. Ch. 21. Palestine, the Cold War and America Revisted. Epilogue: Laski's Legacy.
- ISBN
- 0713991062 :
- LCCN
- 93001398
- OCLC
- ocm27936349
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries