The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution

by Dorothy Thompson

Explains the demands of this nineteenth-century British political movement, and discusses the reasons for both its development and its failure

Genres: History, Politics, Nonfiction, British Literature

399 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Dorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt.

She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany (in 1934), one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s, and as the inspiration for Katharine Hepburn's character "Tess Harding" in the film Woman of the Year (1942).

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Reviews

[Ellie McGowan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book was interesting, just not exactly useful for me.