Both serious and witty at the same time, this text covers key matters in Heseltine's life from the suicide of his great grandfather to the struggle to become Prime Minister. It takes in his upbringing in South Wales, his career at Oxford, his business career and of course all the political events.

Michael Heseltine

Crick, Michael

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Uk

Michael Heseltine seems destined now to go down in history as the man who dragged down a Prime Minister, rather than for becoming PM himself. It has been a burning ambition since school, and, but for the odd misjudgement, he might so easily have made it to No. 10. But though often the darling of the Tory conference, he was never forgiven by the Thatcherites and never quite overcame the suspicions and distaste of the old-fashioned party grandees.Heseltine's has been a career littered with controversy and confrontation: from the question of how he managed to cut short his National Service, to the story of the Heseltine houses whose buyers besieged him with complaints; from the time his constituency almost dropped him for insulting the Royal Family, to accusations of lying to MPs; and then, of course, there were better-known incidents such as seizing the Commons Mace and walking out of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet.In the most detailed examination yet published of Michael Heseltine's career, Crick assesses his sixteen years in some of the leading ministerial jobs, and explains why he has never made it to the very top. Telling the story of Heseltine the tycoon, he also examines how Heseltine almost went bankrupt but then recovered to make millions from a series of revolutionary publishing ventures and brilliant financial deals.

Michael Heseltine: A Biography

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

When it was originally published in 1984, Militant was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism. Although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn is to be attributed to more than hard-left entrism, to some within the party, Crick's book must seem like a lesson from history.Militant was a secret Trotskyite organisation that consistently denied being a party, though at its peak in the mid-1980s it could boast around 8,000 members, all of whom also belonged to the Labour Party. Militant operated clandestinely inside the Labour Party, edging out moderates at grass-roots level and recruiting people to its own ranks. Whilst eventually most of its leaders were expelled, it caused damaging rifts within Labour. Crick's book explores the origins, organisation and aims of Militant. It also explores the famous boss politics of Derek Hatton and Militant in Liverpool, and the party hierarchy's determined and ultimately successful attempts to squash the tendency.An important historical document, it is today seen as a field guide to how hard-left factions can infiltrate the Labour party, with some in the centre of the party allegedly urging its supporters to treat the long unavailable book as a 'war manual'.

Militant

Faber and Faber

Traces the origins and growth of Britain's fifth largest political party, Militant originally a Trotskyist faction of the Labour party

The March of Militant

Faber&Faber

Boss

Simon Schuster(uk)

Michael Howard has never been far from controversy in his twenty-two years in Parliament. Under Margaret Thatcher he introduced the poll tax, water privatisation and the notorious Clause 28. Later he was one of the most unpopular Home Secretaries of modern times, decried by his deputy Ann Widdecombe for having 'something of the night' about him. By 1997 Howard looked dead politically. Then a dramatic comeback propelled him to the Tory leadership. Michael Crick explores Michael Howard's complicated background -- the son of Jewish immigrants who settled in South Wales. As a member of the Cambridge Tory Mafia he once flirted with Labour, only to become a fervent Thatcherite and Eurosceptic -- but what does he really believe? Based on more than 400 interviews and extensive research, Michael Crick presents a rivetingly revealing look at the man who aspires to overturn Labour's massive majority at the next election.

In Search of Michael Howard

Arts & Literature

Gardners Books

<p>Ferguson's own autobiography was a great bestseller on its publication in 1999. But Fergie's book told the story through only one pair of eyes. Now, Michael Crick, acclaimed biographer of Jeffrey Archer, writes the first fully rounded, independent portrait of Sir Alex. From his roots as a Govan trade unionist to the current peaks of world football, Crick applies the same forensic skills he applied to his study of the disgraced Tory peer. Through hundreds of interviews with those who've known and worked with Sir Alex, and delving back through the archives, Michael Crick explores the money and the politics of football, the bust-ups, the fights, and those memorable moments of glory. Charismatic and charming, volcanic and ruthless, searingly ambitious and astonishingly successful. What makes Sir Alex Ferguson tick? How did this complex character become the most successful manager in British football, producing -- first at Aberdeen and now at Manchester United -- two of the most prolific trophy-grabbing machines in the modern game? THE BOSS is essential reading not just for Manchester United fans and football followers in general, but for anyone interested in the skills of successful management.</p>

The Boss : The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction

Fourth Estate

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