Alan Clark, Famous British Politician and Diarist

Alan Clark, Politician and Diarist

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Alan Clark

Born Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark in 1928, the eldest child of the art historian Kenneth Clark, author of the bestselling Civilisation . Alan went to Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he made a name for himself as a Jaguar-driving pleasure-seeker.

Alan Clark became an MP in 1972 and was always seen as a maverick. Clark held various junior ministerial posts, in Employment, Trade and Defence, under Margaret Thatcher and John Major. When he died in 1999 his seat was won by Michael Portillo. Alan Clark was a frank man about his beliefs, and a keen animal rights campaigner. His candid, witty, incisive and highly entertaining set of diaries began to be published in 1993. Revelations about his private life and numerous affairs, made him good copy for the tabloids and Sunday scandal rags, and in turn he became a household name. It is said that he was charming, reckless, irreverent, unpredictable and vain. Obsessed with climbing the political ladder one minute, seemingly willing to risk everything on a whim the next. A veritable Pepys of his generation the diaries provide a great insight into the politics of the 1980's and have been made in a drama series by the BBC starring John Hurt.

Alan Clark - Books, Videos & DVD's

Alan Clark- Book - Diaries In Power 1983-1992

The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power.

Alan Clark - Book - The Last Diaries 1991 - 1999

This third and final volume begins in 1991 with Alan Clark contemplating quitting as MP. The publishing of the first volume of the Diaries, which leads "the coven", a family of former girlfriends, to sell their story to the "News of the World". The diaries follow his ongoing efforts to return to Westminster. As ever there is much, much more: his long-suffering wife Jane, his family, an affair, and, not least, the country life. The volume closes with the tragedy of his final months when he is diagnosed with a brain tumour, but he keeps his diary until he can no longer read the keyboard

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Alan Clark - Audio Books - The Diaries

The audio books of Alan Clark's diaries are especially entertaining. Many volumes narrated by Alan Clark himself in his rich Etonian schooled voice, which adds extra emotion to his triumphs, his anxieties and his wit. Available on CD and audio cassette.