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VICTOR GOLLANCZ, A BIOGRAPHY
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Publishers' blurb
Victor Gollancz was a teacher, publisher, author and campaigner who spent his life passionately trying to make people see the truth as he saw it. In many ways, he epitomised the social conscience of the mid-twentieth century. He founded the Left Book Club, Save Europe Now and the Campaign Against Capital Punishment.
From 1928 until his death in in 1967, the background to his life was the daily running of the publishing firm, a happy and secure home, and the pleasures of music, nature, and companionship.
Ruth Dudley Edwards has had access to all the family and firm papers. She has produced an honest and searching biography which not only reveals an extraordinary man but throws light on many of the political and social events of the mid-twentieth century.
Reviews:
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Financial Times
Irish Times
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"It combines Dudley Edwards's ability as a gifted historian with her skill as a journalist to produce a hugely important and authoritative book that reads as compulsively as a thriller."
John Spain, Irish Independent
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"A hurtling journey, often hilarious and sometimes monstrous, through newspapers, class, politics and sex; not just the double biography of two extraordinary men, but a sideways history of Britain in the fifties and sixties"
Andrew Marr
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"The depth of her learning and the breadth of her sympathy, make this a compelling book, the product of genuine free thinking and spare, fine writing. Few books published this year will have the charm, learning, wisdom and humanity of The Faithful Tribe"
The Times
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This is the help-manual I longed for when I was a young student of Irish history but eventually had to write myself. It’s still the reference book I use most often.’
Ruth Dudley Edwards
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