Richard Hoggart Virtue and Reward

"A heartwarming salutation to a figure who has all too often been patronized by the massive resources of English snobbery. It is difficult to come away from this biography without feeling renewed admiration for its subject."
Times Literary Supplement
"In this welcome first biography, Fred Inglis tells a compelling story about Hoggart with warmth and a wealth of family and contextual material."
Times Higher Education
"An excellent account of this important individual, Richard Hoggart, that also reveals a great deal about the study of culture a d the conditions that are needed for such study to thrive."
Thinking Culture
"Fred Inglis has given us a thorough and comprehensive work on a great man in English life and letters. This is not only a biography of Richard Hoggart, but a celebration of him and a fine tribute."
Lord Melvyn Bragg
"Inglis does excellent justice to Richard Hoggart's unrivalled studies of working-class and organizational culture. But he also brilliantly captures Hoggart's abiding concern with the moral quality of human life. This is a major biographical achievement."
Laurie Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of York and presenter of BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed