Kinnock Hardcover - 1987

HARDBACK "RESPECTED BIOGRAPHY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: Unwin Hyman Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. Minor bumps to head & tail of spine, no rubs, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Illustrated black/white/grey portrait to front and photo to back wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £11.95. Minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head & tail of spine. Some marks to front of jacket. VG * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 8pp. b/w photos.* Pages: 200 pp. text. xxviii pp. Chronology, glossary, Bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: ?Michael Leapman followed Kinnock closely during his rise to labour leadership and has interviewed many of his associates and advisers, friends and enemies. From these conversations he constructs a vivid and exciting analysis of Kinnock?s skill in inspiring cohesion and purpose in a party which has always been a cauldron of radical interests ever threatening to explode. His wide-rangeing researches amount to a compelling study of a man combining determination with an understanding of how to achieve and wield power.? Notes from the jacket of the book make no allowance for Kinnock?s decline and fall.* A NEAR FINE copy with some wear to dust jacket reducing it to VG*