New Labour's Pasts: The Labour Party and Its Discontents

What are the forces driving Britain's governing party?A lively and engaging analysis of Labour's past, and its impact on the present and the future of the party. Highly topical and newsworthy - with Labour on the defensive people are again asking what the party really stands for Spin doctors, focus groups, presidentialism, authoritarialism - this book gets behind the cliches to reveal what New Labour is really about Very little quality coverage of New Labour and even less that covers the history of the Party since 1945 Publication will follow on the heels of the Party Conference in October

James E. Cronin is Professor of History at Boston College and co-chair of the British Study Group at the Centre of European Studies, Harvard University.