The Political Diaries of C.P. Scott 1911-1928

London England: Collins. Very Good/Poor. 1970. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0002111462 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott. 1911-1928. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Wear, tear and repair to D/J. Edited With an Introduction and Commentary by Trevor Wilson. C. P. Scott, unlike most modern newspaper editors, was an engaged politician. Indeed, for fifteen years of his editorship he had sat as a Liberal M.P. This inevitably affected his relations with public men; and gives their particular flavour to the diaries. As Professor Trevor Wulson writes: 'They are not a record of Scott's day-to-day life and only rarely recount conversations in the northern city where he lived and worked. They are an account of what, durng his periodic visits to the south, he learned about affiars of State. Thus their chief interest lies in what they reveal about the decisions that were being taken at the top and the men who were taking them. Although a journalist he was not looking for news when he went calling in London. His intention was political. He wished to know what the government were proposing to do and where possible to influence its actions'. Illustrated. 509 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .