Michael Foot's two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan
(1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist, indelibly
associated with the founding of the National Health Service - is
one of the major political biographies of the last century. It is
the life of an inspirational politician, written by one who knew
and unabashedly admired him. Volume II, first published in 1973,
begins with Bevan's role in the founding of a comprehensive
National Health Service - this while he was also tasked with
addressing the country's severe post-war housing shortage. It takes
in his 1951 resignation from the cabinet in protest at the
introduction of prescription charges, and his subsequent leadership
of a 'Bevanite' Labour left; his publication in 1952 of In Place of
Fear; his service as Shadow Foreign Secretary during the Suez
crisis in 1956; his controversial reversal of opposition to nuclear
weapons in 1957; and his death from cancer in 1960.
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