An Uneasy Inheritance

My Family and Other Radicals

Polly Toynbee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2023 | Main
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-83895-835-0 (ISBN)

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One of the most respected, prolific and razor-sharp voices in social commentary uses the prism of her extraordinary family to examine the true state of class in Britain.

'Fascinating' Spectator
'Entertaining' Sunday Times
'Enthralling' Guardian
'Beautiful, funny and moving' Daily Mail
'Compelling and moving' Observer
'Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotes' Financial Times

While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality?

Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop - Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.

Polly Toynbee is a journalist, author and broadcaster. A Guardian columnist and broadcaster, she was formerly the BBC's social affairs editor. She has written for the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times and been an editor at the Washington Monthly. She has won numerous awards including a National Press Award and the Orwell Prize for Journalism.

1: What Children Know 2: Arnold 3: Harry: A Social Reformer's Tragedy 4: Rosalind 5: Good People, Bad Parents 6: Philip the Child 7: Philip at Oxford and at War 8: My Mother Anne 9: Philip the Father 10: Rhodesia: Many Painful Political Lessons Learned in One Brief Episode 11: Josephine 12: Escaping Oxford, Starting Work 13: Philip - Older But Not Wiser 14: Work, Thirty Years Later 15: An Ending

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	Integrated B&W images throughout
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-83895-835-5 / 1838958355
ISBN-13	978-1-83895-835-0 / 9781838958350
Zustand	Neuware