Diaries Volume Three

Power and Responsibility

Alastair Campbell

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Arrow
01 March 2012

Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; Memoirs; British & Irish history; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Central government

Series: The Alastair Campbell Diaries

The third volume of Campbell's compelling diaries, covering 1999 to 2001.

POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, changing the course of both the Bush presidency and the Blair premiership.

In this volume, we see that New Labour's honeymoon is well and truly over. In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top, here we find graphic accounts of a variety of domestic crises- foot-and-mouth disease and protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt. Volume Three includes Peter Mandelson's second resignation, the agonies of the Millennium Dome, and the most unexpected slow-handclapping in memory, when the Women's Institute turned against Tony Blair. Yet despite all the problems - not least the most accident-prone manifesto launch in history, complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter - Labour won a second successive landslide election victory. That triumph is intimately recorded here, alongside the high points of this period, such as devolution to Northern Ireland and the fall of Milosevic.

By: Alastair Campbell
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 516g
ISBN: 9780099493471
ISBN 10: 0099493470
Series: The Alastair Campbell Diaries
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility

A compulsively fascinating record Daily Telegraph (on Vol. 2) A belter Independent (on Vol. 2) Instantly captivating Spectator (on Vol. 2) Alastair Campbell's diaries have the quality of Pepys ... people will be looking for insights and finding them in 100 years' time Lord Alex Carlile (Vol. 1)