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Dick Leonard
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Continuing Legacy
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Front Matter
Pages 105-105
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About this book
How much does Tony Blair owe to Anthony Crosland? The author of The Future of Socialism , who died suddenly as Foreign Secretary in 1977, remains the major philosophical inspiration and reference point for the left. To what extent is New Labour fashioned in Crosland's image? What can the Blair government learn from his writings and ministerial achievements? An all-star cast of sixteen authors examine Crosland's legacy in political theory and political practice and point to numerous ways in which his message remains relevant to policy-makers today. The contributors include Gordon Brown, Roy Hattersley, Michael Young, Raymond Plant, David Lipsey, Brian Brivati and Tony Wright. Susan Crosland contributes a moving postscript.
About the authors
BRIAN BRIVATI Reader in History at Kingston University, author of Hugh Gaitskell
GORDON BROWN Chancellor of the Exchequer
HUMPHREY COLE Chief Economic Adviser to the Department of the Environment when Crosland was Secretary of State
SUSAN CROSLAND Crosland's widow; author and journalist, author of the memoir Tony Crosland
PHILIP DODD Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts
ROY HATTERSLEY former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Cabinet Minister. Now a life peer
PETER KELLNER political journalist and BBC broadcaster, the BBC's elections and opinion polls expert
DAVID LIPSEY former editor of The Economist and co-editor of The Socialist Agenda: Crosland's Legacy (1981)
SIR MICHAEL PALLISER Permanent Under-Secretary at the FCO. (1975-82) while Crosland was Foreign Secretary
RAYMOND PLANT Labour life peer, political theorist and Master of St. Catherine's College, Oxford
CHRISTOPHER PRICE Anthony Crosland's Parliamentary Private Secretary (1966-67) and editor of The Stakeholder
DAVID REISMAN Professor of Economics, University of Surrey, author of Anthony Crosland and Crosland's Future
DANIEL WINCOTT Lecturer in Politics, University of Birmingham
TONY WRIGHT Labour MP for Cannock Chase. Author of Socialisms, and Citizens and Subjects
MICHAEL YOUNG Labour life peer, Chairman, School for Social Entrepreneurs, author of The Rise of the Meritocracy and of Labour's 1945 General Election Manifesto