From Bevan To Blair

For more than half a century Geoffrey Goodman was one of Fleet Street's foremost political and industrial reporters. This (updated and revised) book is his record of what it was like to work at the heart of British politics. Taking us through the years that followed the end of World War II right up to the end of the Blair years, he offers a compelling story of the characters and events that shaped British political history. Goodman's unique portraits include many of the political giants of the twentieth century. As a close friend of the great socialist Aneurin Bevan, he is able to reveal the philosophy and drive of the man who could have been Premier. Goodman also offers a behind-the-scenes account of Labour Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, whom he worked with, and brings to light new reasons why Wilson suspected the security agencies of trying to destabilise his government. Other portraits include Michael Foot, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Willie Whitelaw, Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch and Hugh Cudlipp. Then there is the still untold story of the life and bizarre death of Goodman's former boss Robert Maxwell…