Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain

by Paul Corthorn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198747144
• ISBN13: 9780198747147
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"