Mo Mowlam

by JuliaLangdon (Author)

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  2001

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  Mo Mowlam, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has become one of Britain's most popular politicians; a woman who evokes immense personal empathy among politicians and, more importantly, the public at large. This biography, explores her life - how, as the child of alcoholic parents, she was the first in the family to go to university; her studies in the USA; her early career as a politics lecturer who was also a woman with a mission to do something; her sexual liberation in the 1970s; her Labour politics in the North East, Westminster and of course Ulster; and her dramatic success in beating a brain tumour.

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  2001

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  Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland until 1999, is arguably Britain's most popular politician and a woman who evokes immense personal empathy among politicians and, more importantly, the public at large. She has given political journalist Julia Langdon privileged access to her family, friends and colleagues to enable her to write a definitive account of an absorbing life - the child of alcoholic parents who was the first in the family to go to university; studying in the USA; a politics lecturer who was also a woman with a mission to do something; her sexual liberation in the Seventies; her Labour politics in the North East, Westminster and of course Ulster; and her dramatic success achieved against a brain tumour.

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.25

  Mo Mowlam, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has become one of Britain's most popular politicians; a woman who evokes immense personal empathy among politicians and, more importantly, the public at large. This biography, explores her life - how, as the child of alcoholic parents, she was the first in the family to go to university; her studies in the USA; her early career as a politics lecturer who was also a woman with a mission to do something; her sexual liberation in the 1970s; her Labour politics in the North East, Westminster and of course Ulster; and her dramatic success in beating a brain tumour.