Sherman, Alfred
Paradoxes of Power
Born in 1919 in London’s East End, until 1948 Sherman was a Communist and fought in the Spanish Civil War. But he ended up an indefatigable free-market crusader. The book describes his early relationship with Sir Keith Joseph and his own role in the formation of the Centre for Policy Studies in 1974.
Sherman examines the origins and development of ‘Thatcherism’, but concludes that the Conservative administrations of the 1980s were, for the most part, an ‘interlude’ and that the post-war consensus remains largely unscathed — ‘we are back to where we started’.
Keywords: Thatcher, Sherman, polemics, conservative government, communism, free-market, Kieth Joseph, Centre for Policy Studies, Thatcherism, metapolitics, politics, Thatcher government
- Author(s)
- Sherman, Alfred
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2
- Page amount
- 174 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781845405205
- Printed ISBN
- 9781845400927