The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister. Volume I: 1964-1966
Reviewed by Fritz Stern
The candid and revealing diaries of Labour's left-of-center Minister of Housing, diaries that Crossman's Labour colleagues tried to keep unpublished. They afford a splendid, though dismal, picture of the governance of Britain and of its economic prospects. Also poignant thoughts, as when describing taking part in Churchill's funeral he wrote: "It felt like the end of an epoch, possibly even the end of a nation."
