History Review, September 1st, 2000
Leading Labour: From Keir Hardie to Tony Blair **** Kevin Jefferys (ed) I.B. Tauris, 1999 256 pp, 24-50 [pounds sterling] hardback ISBN 1 86064 453 8
Richard Wilkinson finds stimulation in a new book on Labour leaders
`What emerges from the collection as a whole is the extent to which the twentieth-century Labour Party has been attached to the "cult of personality",' writes Kevin Jefferys, the editor of Leading Labour. This is why these 12 essays on the leaders of the Labour Party from Hardie to Blair are so thought-provoking. Their personalities come across in the well-chosen photographs ...
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