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Product Description The finest political biographer of the age, it is as an essayist that Michael Foot remains in a class of his own. Here are 50 years of essays; from the death of Stalin in 1953 to his reflections on a better way to abolish the weapons' in 2003, the same depth of feeling is deployed throughout this wide-ranging collection.Michael Foot was leader of the Labour Party from 1980 until 1983. About the Author Michael Foot was leader of the Labour party in opposition to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, from 1980 to 1983. Before which he was a journalist and campaigner, and one of Britain's most popular writers and thinkers of the twentieth century.