Philip Gould An Unfinished Life [Hardcover]

The death of Philip Gould, former Labour Party Communications Director, in 2011 deprived Britain of one of its most acute and well-respected political minds. In this book his friends and colleagues including David Miliband and Lord Mandelson discuss his life from his early years in the Labour Party to his ultimately doomed fight against cancer.Introduction; G.Gould Philip Gould's Life and Work; D.Kavanagh Friendship in Politics; A.Campbell 1985-1992. The Start of Labour's Long March; P.Hewitt The Political Impact of The Unfinished Revolution; D.Finkelstein The Unstarted Revolution; Lord Mandelson Philip Gould and the Art of Political Strategy; P.Hyman 'Our Kind of Politics'; D.Miliband A Second Unfinished Revolution; A.Cooper New and Blue; J.Purnell A US Perspective on British Campaigning Strategy; S.Greenberg Life in the 'Death Zone'; J.Harding

'He wasn't just my pollster, he was my pathfinder.'

- Tony Blair

'Philip was a pathbreaking political strategist as well as a warm, funny, engaging, deeply emotional and loving human being.'

- Ed Miliband

'His last battle was extraordinarily brave; but it was when he opened his arms to death, and looked it in the face, that he shook everyone he knew and a host of friends he never met.'

Andrew Marr

'What motivated him was a genuine, passionate desire to improve his world.'

George Osborne

Dennis KavanaghGeorgia GouldAlastair CampbellPatricia HewittDanny FinkelsteinLord MandelsonPeter HymanDavid MilibandAndrew CooperJames PurnellStan GreenbergJames Harding