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A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey, Jim Sillars, New condition, Book
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 1780276834
- Publication Name
- Birlinn Ltd
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Difference of Opinion : My Political Journey
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Birlinn, The Limited
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Process / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Political, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Jim Sillars as a working-class schoolboy was told by the Deputy Rector at Ayr Academy that he would end up a 'common labourer', and by the Rector that he would 'make nothing of himself'. He went on to be elected an MP twice, reaching high levels of political leadership, and making a continuing high-profile contribution to public life and policy. During a 60-year career in politics he moved from being a Labour MP and staunch Unionist - known as the hammer of the Nats - to becoming a prominent member of the SNP. He won the Govan by-election for the SNP, controversially became a columnist for the Scottish Sun, and when he lost his seat in 1992 notoriously described Scots as '90-minute patriots'. His 33-year marriage to Margo MacDonald and her involvement in nationalist politics is covered in the book. Though he is still a member of the SNP, both he and Margo clashed repeatedly with the SNP leadership, and he is now a sharp critic of the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and what he describes as the SNP's cult of personality.
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Publisher
Birlinn, The Limited
ISBN-10
1780276834
ISBN-13
9781780276830
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050409590
Product Key Features
Book Title
Difference of Opinion : My Political Journey
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.2in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Da591
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Mr Sillars pays fulsome tribute to his wife and writes of the SNP leadership's efforts to stymie her Scottish Parliament career', 'From the Attlee landslide in 1945 to Harold Wilson's devolution woes, from SNP MP on the inside to outside strategic critic , his take on independence remains original and unique. This memoir straddles some momentous events which are told with real insight from a man with a ringside seat', [an] enthralling autobiography... Sillars is a man of outstanding ability, terrifyingly wellread, a profound and original thinker', From the Attlee landslide in 1945 to Harold Wilson's devolution woes, from SNP MP on the inside to outside strategic critic , his take on independence remains original and unique. This memoir straddles some momentous events which are told with real insight from a man with a ringside seat', Jim Sillars hails from Burn's country and is the living embodiment of the bard's "man of independent mind". Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the strange death of Labour in Scotland and the demise of Alex Salmond', Sillars has a new book out, A Difference of Opinion, which is partly a memoir but also a diagnosis of where we are and where we're going', Neither dogmatic nor over-defensive, it offers a basis for civilised, rational debate on Scotland's constitutional future...an unusually interesting book about Scottish politics, with wider perspectives'
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Dewey Decimal
941.085092
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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