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An Uneasy Inheritance
My Family and Other Radicals
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Fascinating Spectator Entertaining Sunday Times Enthralling Guardian Beautiful, funny and moving Daily Mail Compelling and moving Observer Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotes Financial Times While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never...
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An Uneasy Inheritance
One of the most respected, prolific and razor-sharp voices in social commentary uses the prism of her extraordinary family to examine the true state of class in Britain.
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Fascinating Spectator
Entertaining Sunday Times
Enthralling Guardian
Beautiful, funny and moving Daily Mail
Compelling and moving Observer
Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotes Financial Times
While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality?
Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop - Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781838958374
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Edition: Main
Illustration: Integrated B&W images throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 33.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 448
About the Author
Polly Toynbee is a journalist, author and broadcaster. A Guardian columnist and broadcaster, she was formerly the BBC's social affairs editor. She has written for the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times and been an editor at the Washington Monthly. She has won numerous awards including a National Press Award and the Orwell Prize for Journalism.
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