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CITIZEN CLEM
A BIOGRAPHY OF ATTLEE: WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE |
| By: |
John Bew |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1780879903 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781780879901 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2016 |
| Pages: |
544 |
| Description: |
Published to coincide with the Labour conference, a biography of the prime minister who made the Party what it was in its glory days, by an author praised as 'the outstanding historian of his generation' |
| Synopsis: |
Clement Attlee was a slightly-built, bald, pipe-smoking and unassuming man who presided over the radical administration of 1945-51 and is sometimes referred to as Britain's greatest peace-time Prime Minster. His cocooned suburban childhood and standing at university as 'the man who couldn't quite' were unlikely preparations for such a figure. Yet Attlee was often underestimated: he won over those who compared him unfavourably to his rival, Churchill and undercut their doubt with dry wit and proof of his steady and ethical leadership. His political awakening volunteering in the East End of London was instrumental in redrawing his map of Britain's class and economic system. Growing up in the comfortable coda of the Victorian era, he foresaw an epoch of change - one that he was pivotal to bring about in the post-war years. After serving at Gallipoli during the First Word War he rose through the ranks of the Labour Party and during the Second World War became Britain's first Deputy Prime Minister. In 1945, in the glow of Churchill's great war victory, Attlee won the election by a landslide.Alongside Bevin, Nye and Truman, his governance saw the end of the Empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's places in NATO and the nuclear arms race. John Bew's brilliant biography will pierce the reticence of Attlee and explore the intellectual foundations and core beliefs of one of the most important, and least understood, figures in the history of the United Kingdom. It will reveal a public servant and patriotic socialist, who never lost sight of the national interest and whose view of humanity and belief in solidarity was grafted onto the Union Jack. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Quercus Publishing |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2017
Winner of Parliamentary Book Awards: Best Political Book by a
Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2017 |
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Returnable |
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