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|author=Gary Armstrong and Tim Gray
|title=The Authentic Tawney: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R. H. Tawney
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=The Authentic Tawney takes a fresh look at the political writing of R H Tawney, a left wing academic whose works were a big influence on the huge program of postwar reform engineered by the Labour Party, particularly the provision of universal secondary education. The authors assert that Tawney's ideas changed markedly through the course of his life and that they lack the consistency that other interpreters have erroneously attributed to them. They reject the notion that his writings have an essential unity, which is philosophically interesting - don't we tend to assume that an intellectual's life's work will contain a central 'core' of ideas? Discussion of an important pioneer in democratic socialism also seems relevant at a time when Labour has 'lost its way' and evolved into a watered down version of the Conservatives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402243</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anna Lawrence Pietroni