For Mine is the Kingdom

Alister Taylor Publishing Ltd, 1975, 176 pages. Some shelf wear and DW has some cutting. Inscription on back.

A charismatic ex-soldier, orator and propagandist, John A Lee was a dynamic figure in the Labour Party from the 1920s until 1940, when he was expelled for attacking the leadership of M.J. Savage. Lee had a parallel career as a writer and later a bookseller. His best-known novel, the largely autobiographical Children of the Poor (1934), was described as a ?sensational book on vice, poverty, misery'. 'For Mine is the Kingdom is the scurrilous 'biography' of ?booze baron? Sir Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland and leader of The Trade.