Mo Mowlam (1949–2005)
Autor(a) de Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People
About the Author
Obras de Mo Mowlam
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Mowlam, Marjorie
- Data de nascimento
- 1949-09-18
- Data de falecimento
- 2005-08-19
- Local de enterro
- cremated at Sittingbourne
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Educação
- Chiswick Girls' grammar school, West London
Coundon Court School, Coventry
Trevelyan College, Durham University (reading sociology and anthropology)
University of Iowa ( Ph.D, political science) - Ocupação
- Assistant to Labour MP Tony Benn in London
Assistant to American writer Alvin Toffler in New York
Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Florida State University
Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne - Premiações
- BA in Anthropology at Durham in 1971
Honorary Degree, University of Teeside
Freeman of the Borough of Redcar
Honorary Doctor of Civil Law at Durham University (1971) - Pequena biografia
- 1995 married Husband Jonathan Norton, a City of London banker, died 02-2009. 2 stepchildren, Henrietta (H) and Freddie.
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 81
- Popularidade
- #222,754
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
But this is not just a dry politicial sermon. Mo tells us about her personal life. She writes about getting used to life in a royal palace for a down-to-earth Watford girl. There were weekend house parties where they sat on the Queen's bed and played croquet on the lawns. She tells us about how she and her team coped with her cancer treatment at the same time as travelling around Europe as a senior member of the UK Government.
This is not a great work of literature but it is a heartwarming and honest pesonal account by an intelligent and sincere woman who started out trying to make a difference to the lives of ordinary people in her Redcar constituency and ended up at the centre of world-changing political events.… (mais)