# The Benn Diaries

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- Book: [The Benn Diaries](https://www.bookquiver.com/tony-benn/the-benn-diaries) ([The Benn Diaries.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tony-benn/the-benn-diaries.md))
- Authors: [Tony Benn](https://www.bookquiver.com/tony-benn)
- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7353-938-9
- Published: 2017-03-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Benn Diaries , kept for almost seventy years, are a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of the political life of our times. This single-volume edition is the selected highlights of the complete diaries from Tony's schooldays in the 1940s until he ceased keeping a record of his day-to-day thoughts in 2009. The narrative starts with Tony as a schoolboy and takes the reader through his experience as a trainee pilot during the war, his tentative first days as a backbencher in Atlee's post-war government, through his battle to remain in the Commons after the death of his father. From cabinet posts and leadership battles, through election highs ands lows to becoming a retired widower. Tony Benn was a consistently radical voice campaigning for the causes he was passionate about. This volume is the definitive legacy of the best political diarist of our times.