{"product_id":"aneurin-bevan-a-biography-by-michael-foot","title":"Aneurin Bevan 1945 - 1960: A Biography by Michael Foot","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Foot's two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan (1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist, indelibly associated with the founding of the National Health Service - is one of the major political biographies of the last century. It is the life of an inspirational politician, written by one who knew and unabashedly admired him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume II, first published in 1973, begins with Bevan's role in the founding of a comprehensive National Health Service - this while he was also tasked with addressing the country's severe post-war housing shortage. It takes in his 1951 resignation from the cabinet in protest at the introduction of prescription charges, and his subsequent leadership of a 'Bevanite' Labour left; his publication in 1952 of In Place of Fear; his service as Shadow Foreign Secretary during the Suez crisis in 1956; his controversial reversal of opposition to nuclear weapons in 1957; and his death from cancer in 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43713348239434,"sku":"6777x","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6777x.jpg?v=1781671683","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/aneurin-bevan-a-biography-by-michael-foot","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}