Books in Brief: The Rise of Enoch Powell

The Rise of Enoch Powell, by Paul Foot (Penguin, 95¢). Penguin Books, an organization founded by Sir Allan Lane to “educate” the working classes, has come out with an American edition of Paul Foot’s The Rise of Enoch Powell. I am told by one of Penguin’s Puffins, that the book was originally to be entitled “Black Powell,” but the pun proved too much even for Mr. Foot, who only last year penned the only available hymn of praise to Mr. Harold Wilson, also published by Penguin. That this silly little exercise in nitpicking (for that is what Mr. Foot’s book is) should be published in America while T. E. Utley’s excellent Enoch Powell, The Man and his Thinking, by far the most intelligent account of Powell and Powellism, should be left to languish in British book stores, provides us with another glimpse at the capricious ways of the American book publishing industry.

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The Rise of Enoch Powell, by Paul Foot (Penguin, 95¢). Penguin Books, an organization founded by Sir Allan Lane to “educate” the working classes, has come out with an American edition of Paul Foot’s The Rise of Enoch Powell. I am told by one of Penguin’s Puffins, that the book was originally to be entitled “Black Powell,” but the pun proved too much even for Mr. Foot, who only last year penned the only available hymn of praise to Mr. Harold Wilson, also published by Penguin. That this silly little exercise in nitpicking (for that is what Mr. Foot’s book is) should be published in America while T. E. Utley’s excellent Enoch Powell, The Man and his Thinking, by far the most intelligent account of Powell and Powellism, should be left to languish in British book stores, provides us with another glimpse at the capricious ways of the American book publishing industry.