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When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go on the coffin... John Hamer Shawcross never forgot that moment.
This is Howard Spring’s enduring masterpiece. John Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged classes he began by opposing. This wonderfully perceptive study of a career politician serves as a telling elegy for the Labour Party.
With a new introduction by Tristram Hunt