The Left’s Megaphone
Eric Hobsbawm, 8 July 1993
Harold Laski: A Political Biography
by Michael Newman.
Macmillan, 438 pp., £45, March 1993,0 333 43716 0 Show More
by Michael Newman.
Macmillan, 438 pp., £45, March 1993,
Harold Laski: A Life on the Left
by Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman.
Hamish Hamilton, 669 pp., £25, June 1993,0 241 12942 7 Show More
by Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman.
Hamish Hamilton, 669 pp., £25, June 1993,
“... had no need to invent all those intimate contacts with the eminent and the powerful, from Woodrow Wilson to Stalin, about which his friends and enemies joked. He really did know such people: indeed, he had taken care to know them from the start. President Roosevelt asked to see him whenever he came to the US, and used his arguments in cabinet ... ”