The Time of My Life

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^ he invigorating memoirs of a leading politician, The Time of My Life is also the autobiography of a splendid Englishman who is liked and admired across the political spectrum.
Denis Healey was born in a year of revolution, 1917. He grew up in Yorkshire and at Oxford began to test and expand his political views. It was his experience in the army during the Second World War, however, that taught him that he could only think well under stress. As International Secretary of the Labour Party he toured a Europe shattered in the war's after-matli, an experience that would later stand him in good stead in Government. In 1952 he became Labour MP for South-East Leeds and since then has been, for long periods, Defence Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a leading light in die Labour Part)' and Shadow Cabinet. His \'iews on the detailed machiner)' of government, on Britain's rapidly changing role abroad, and the political storms at home are always trenchant, lively and... Tovább

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^ he invigorating memoirs of a leading politician, The Time of My Life is also the autobiography of a splendid Englishman who is liked and admired across the political spectrum.
Denis Healey was born in a year of revolution, 1917. He grew up in Yorkshire and at Oxford began to test and expand his political views. It was his experience in the army during the Second World War, however, that taught him that he could only think well under stress. As International Secretary of the Labour Party he toured a Europe shattered in the war's after-matli, an experience that would later stand him in good stead in Government. In 1952 he became Labour MP for South-East Leeds and since then has been, for long periods, Defence Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a leading light in die Labour Part)' and Shadow Cabinet. His \'iews on the detailed machiner)' of government, on Britain's rapidly changing role abroad, and the political storms at home are always trenchant, lively and provocative.
As the title suggests. The Time of My Life is more than a political memoir. Denis Healey has witnessed the great changes that ha\'e taken place in Britain since the war, and often taken a decisive hand in them. From Attlee and Be\'an through to Mrs Thatcher it has not only been the political landscape that has been transformed as town and country bore witness to the great social, technological, and demographic re\'olutions. Denis Heale\^s wide-ranging intelligence brilliantly counterpoints the pace of change and ranges further, into literature, art, music, and his speciality, photography. The memoirs of a man in the round; a great politician, speaker, writer, and above all friend and family man. The Time of My Life will inspire all who read it with the warmth, wit and wisdom of Denis Healey Vissza