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Title: FAME IS THE SPUR
By: Howard Spring, Tristram Hunt
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 1784976504
ISBN 13: 9781784976507
Publisher: HEAD OF ZEUS
Pub. date: 5 October, 2017
Pages: 608
Description: A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics.
Synopsis: When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go on the coffin... John Hamer Shawcross never forgot that moment. Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. Hamer's trajectory is mirrored by the rise of the Labour movement in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. This wonderfully perceptive study of a career politician serves as a telling elegy for the Labour Party.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Returns: Non-returnable
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