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Book SynopsisRadical statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, Tony Benn is the pre-eminent diarist of his generation. His political activity continued after 'retirement' through mass meetings, broadcasts and in more recent years through social media. A widower since 2000, Tony Benn died at his home in London on 14th March 2014.
Trade ReviewThe Benn Diaries, intensely personal, candid and engaging as they are, rank as an important work of historiography -- Alan Clark * Daily Telegraph *
Quite apart from the brio of illuminating a life almost entirely free of boredom (another rarity), the collected Benn has some critical patches of postwar history recorded hot -- Peter Hennessy * The Times *
Immensely readable and revealing -- Ben Pimlott * Sunday Times *
An archive of incalculable value -- Ruth Dudley Edwards * Independent *
The best political diarist of our time * Financial Times *
