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Diaries

Diaries

by Alan Clark (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Edition: Re-Issue
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 03 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 1857991427
ISBN 13: 9781857991420
Book Overview: Reissue, with striking new cover look, to coincide with first paperback publication of THE LAST DIARIES High profile Times serialisation and widespread review coverage on hardback and paperback publication of THE LAST DIAIRIES will bring renewed attention for first two Jane Clark will be promoting the books through interviews and events. In Power and Into Politics have both been hardback and paperback bestsellers and have already sold over 300,000 copies, spending more than 30 weeks overall on the Sunday Times bestseller list 'He was a cocky, rackety hypochondriac and probably the best diarist of his century' Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph 'The Diaries have conferred what no prime minister, no chief whip have in their gift: political immortality' Guardian

Author Bio
Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three vols) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by teh BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.