The Rise of Enoch Powell: An Examination of Enoch Powell's Attitude to Immigration and Race Tapa dura - 1969

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London: Cornmarket Press Ltd., 1969 Enoch Powell's dealings on race and immigration can not be explained solely in terms of what he himself refers to as 'the situation in Wolverhampton'. In this book Paul Foot has examined the attitudes of Enoch Pawell regarding every aspect of race and Empire in an attempt to discover just how and why the man who, in 1964, said: "I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin," could, in 1968, say: "The West Indian or Asian does not by being born in England become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact, he is a West Indian or Asian still". Whether Enoch Powell is a moralist, a political opportunist or just inconsistent, is a question that can no longer be shirked in the evidence of this fascinating record of one man's politics over a span of twenty-five years.… Leer más