ENOCH POWELL WAS one of the most loved - and hated - politicians of the twentieth century. His death was treated like that of an ex Prime Minister. But this was a man who, largely through his own quixotry, sat in the Cabinet for just fifteen months during a parliamentary career of thirty-seven years.

He is remembered above all for one speech in which he predicted conflagration - 'Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood' - if immigration were not stopped. This was also the politician who proclaimed, twenty years before Margaret Thatcher, what came to be seen as the principles of Thatcherism. Yet to see Powell in this context is to just skim the surface. Besides his other political acts he was a Professor of Greek at the age of twenty-five, brigadier at the age of thirty-two, a poet, biblical scholar and devoted family man. His was a life whose range and emotional intensity are still barely understood.

Originally published in 1998, "cancelled" in 2020, and now finally back in print after six years, this definitive biography is the only one for which Powell specifically granted interviews, and the first to draw on Powell's massive private archive. A must-read for those who wish to better understand this monumental figure.

Simon Heffer (b. 1960) is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator. Heffer has published several biographies including Like the Roman as well as a series of books on the social history of Great Britain. He was appointed professorial research fellow at the University of Buckingham in 2017. He also sits in the House of Lords as Lord Blackwater.

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Biography

Like the Roman

NINE LIVES