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Diaries

By Alan Clark

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The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life everContinue

The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power.

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  • Pooter in Parliament

    Diaries: Into Politics Alan Clark Weidenfeld and Nicholson £20, pp452 Buy it at BOL It is Tuesday, 8 December 1981. Alan Clark has been lunching with Frank Johnson, then, and now again, a parliamentary sketch writer. Johnson seems to be less interest ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Connoisseur of class

    Diaries: Into Politics Alan Clark, ed Ion Trewin 452pp, Weidenfeld £20 Buy it at BOL It is Tuesday June 15, 1982. The Prime Minister has just made a statement to a jubilant House of Commons announcing the Argentine "surrender", and the word electrifi ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 432 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 1857991427
  • ISBN-13: 9781857991420
  • Publisher: Phoenix Press
  • Pub date: Mar 01, 1994
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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