Item Condition: Used; Very Good 1983 Tony Benn is an undeniably controversial force in contemporary British politics. Identified by many as the greatest threat to the British way of life, he is in the vanguard of the Labour left and nominated by the media as their figurehead. The energetic radicalism and missionary zeal for which he is renowned are virtually family traditions, as the author of this biography has discovered in tracing Benn's origins - from his great-grandfather Julius, a Congregational minister in London's East End (and tragically murdered by his own son William, who ended his days ina lunatic asylum); to his grandfather John, founder of the Benn Brothers' publishing empire and the first Benn to sit in Parliament; to his father William Wedgie' Benn, who was a Labour cabinet minister and a privy councillor, and became Viscount Stansgate in 1942, passing on the hereditary title to his son in I960, and thereby disqualifying him from being an MP in the House of Commons. var aPageStart = (new Date()).getTime();var ue_t0=ue_t0||+new Date();window.ue_ihb = (window.ue_ihb || window.ueinit || 0) + 1;if (window.ue_ihb === 1) {var ue_csm = window, ue_hob = +new Date();(function(d){var e=d.ue=d.ue||{},f=Date.now||function(){return+new Date};e.d=function(b){return f()-(b?0:d.ue_t0)};e.stub=function(b,a){if(!b[a]){var c=[];b[a]=function(){c.push([c.slice.call(arguments),e.d(),d.ue_id])};b[a].replay=function(b){for(var a;a=c.shift();)b(a[0],a[1],a[2])};b[a].isStub=1}};e.exec=function(b,a){return function(){try{return b.apply(this,arguments)}catch(c){ueLogError(c,{attribution:a||"undefined",logLevel:"WARN"})}}}})(ue_csm); var ue_err_chan = 'jserr-rw';(function(d,e){function h(f,b){if(!(a.ec>a.mxe)&&f){a.ter.push(f);b=b||{};var c=f.logLevel||b.logLevel;c&&c!==k&&c!==m&&c!==n&&c!==p||a.ec++;c&&c!=k||a.ecf++;b.pageURL=""+(e.location?e.location.href:"");b.logLevel=c;b.attribution=f.attribution||b.attribution;a.erl.push({ex:f,info:b})}}function l(a,b,c,e,g){d.ueLogError({m:a,f:b,l:c,c:""+e,err:g,fromOnError:1,args:arguments},g?{attribution:g.attribution,logLevel:g.logLevel}:void 0);return!1}var k="FATAL",m="ERROR",n="WARN",p="DOWNGRADED",a={ec:0,ecf:0,pec:0,ts:0,erl:[],ter:[],mxe:50,startTimer:function(){a.ts++;setInterval(function(){d.ue&&a.pec""
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