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Enoch Powell - Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain (Paperback)
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Enoch Powell - Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain (Paperback)
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You Save R93 (19%)
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Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and
his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of
the most controversial figures in British political life in the
second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on
what came to be known as Thatcherism. Telling the story of Powell's
political life from the 1950s onwards, Paul Corthorn's intellectual
biography goes beyond a fixation on the 'Rivers of Blood' speech to
bring us a man who thought deeply about - and often took highly
unusual (and sometimes apparently contradictory) positions on - the
central political debates of the post-1945 era: denying the
existence of the Cold War (at one stage going so far as to advocate
the idea of an alliance with the Soviet Union); advocating
free-market economics long before it was fashionable, while
remaining a staunch defender of the idea of a National Health
Service; vehemently opposing British membership of the European
Economic Community; arguing for the closer integration of Northern
Ireland with the rest of the UK; and in the 1980s supporting the
campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament. In the process, Powell
emerges as more than just a deeply divisive figure but as a seminal
political intellectual of his time. Paying particular attention to
the revealing inconsistencies in Powell's thought and the
significant ways in which his thinking changed over time, Corthorn
argues that Powell's diverse campaigns can nonetheless still be
understood as a coherent whole, if viewed as part of a
long-running, and wide-ranging, debate set against the backdrop of
the long-term decline in Britain's international, military, and
economic position in the decades after 1945.
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