Download or read book Citizen Clem written by John Bew and published by Riverrun. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING** **WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY** *Book of the year: The Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Evening Standard* 'Outstanding . . . We still live in the society that was shaped by Clement Attlee' Robert Harris, Sunday Times 'The best book in the field of British politics' Philip Collins, The Times 'Easily the best single-volume, cradle-to-grave life of Clement Attlee yet written' Andrew Roberts Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the Empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age, but an emblem of it; and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the twentieth century. Here, Bew pierces Attlee's reticence to examine the intellect and beliefs of Britain's greatest - and least appreciated - peacetime prime minister. This edition includes a new preface by the author in response to the 2017 general election.
Download or read book As It Happened written by Clement R. Attlee and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "As It Happened" by Clement R. Attlee. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Clement Attlee written by Michael Jago and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an 'accidental Prime Minister' and his post-war reforms.
Download or read book The Social Worker written by Clement Richard Attlee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attlee written by David Howell and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the life of Clement Attlee, Labour politician and prime minister from 1945 to 1951. He was the first Labour prime minister with an absolute Common's majority.
Download or read book Attlee and Churchill written by Leo McKinstry and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party leaders, but there has never been a connection like that between Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, who were leaders of their respective parties for a total of thirty-five years. Brought together in the epoch-making circumstances of the Second World War, they forged a partnership that transcended party lines, before going on to face each other in two of Britain's most important and influential general elections. Based on extensive research and archival material, Attlee and Churchill provides a host of new insights into their remarkable relationship. From the bizarre coincidence that they shared a governess, to their explosive wartime clashes over domestic policy and reconstruction; and from Britain's post-war nuclear weapons programme, which Attlee kept hidden from Churchill and his own Labour Party, to the private correspondence between the two men in later life, which demonstrates their friendliness despite all the political antagonism, Leo McKinstry tells the intertwined story of these two political titans as never before.In a gripping narrative McKinstry not only provides a fresh perspective on two of the most compelling leaders of the mid-twentieth century but also brilliantly brings to life this vibrant, traumatic and inspiring era of modern British history.
Download or read book Twilight of Empire written by Clement Attlee and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attlee written by Nick Thomas-Symonds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a key figure in British political life, now with a new foreword by Keir Starmer, providing a vivid portrait of the man and his politics. Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britain's greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister. Yet somehow Attlee the man remains elusive. How did such a moderate, modest man bring about so many enduring changes? What are the secrets of his leadership style? And how do his personal attributes account for both his spectacular successes and his apparent failures? When Attlee became Prime Minister in July 1945 he was the leader of a Labour party that had won a landslide victory. With almost 50 percent of the popular vote, Attlee seemed to have achieved the platform for Labour to dominate post-war British politics. Yet just 6 years and 3 months after the 1945 victory, and despite all Attlee's governments had appeared to achieve, Labour was out of office, condemned to opposition for a further 13 years. This presents one of the great paradoxes of twentieth-century British history: how Attlee's government achieved so much, but lost power so quickly. But perhaps the greatest paradox was Attlee himself. Attlee's obituary in "The Times" in 1967 stated that 'much of what he did was memorable; very little that he said'. This new biography, based on extensive research into Attlee's papers and first-hand interviews, examines the myths that have arisen around this key figure of British political life, providing a vivid portrait of this man and his politics.
Download or read book From New Jerusalem to New Labour written by V. Bogdanor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar collection of contributors consider each British post-war Prime Minister and examine how they have dealt with Britain's changing role, domestic and overseas, since the end of WWII. Even at the start of the 21st century, Britain remains in a state of transition, between a world which is dead and one still struggling to be born.
Download or read book Attlee s Great Contemporaries written by Frank Field and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, Clement Attlee came to power as Labour Prime Minister with a huge landslide majority. Under his leadership, some of the greatest reforms were initiated, not least the founding of The National Health Service. Attlee had a firm vision of a more just and equitable society, which the nation wanted. This firm vision is something that attracts Frank Field. To Field, Attlee is a hero. After retirement, Clement Attlee wrote a masterly series of profiles of his great contemporaries, many published at the time in The Observer. These are now collected together in a book for the first time. They are of extraordinary historical interest and will command an audience in their own right. In them we see how Attlee emphasised the importance of character for successful politics. To Field they epitomise the intellect and humanity of a hero of 20th Century politics, a man with profound qualities that are so poorly represented in today's politics. In a brilliant and most controversial introduction, Frank Field argues just how radical Attlee was, wishing, for example, to realign British foreign and defence policy. In his epilogue, Professor Peter Hennessy, shows the importance of Attlee in full historical perspective.
Download or read book The Labour Party in Perspective written by C R (Clement Richard) 1883 Attlee and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Clement Attlee written by Jerry Hardman Brookshire and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how Attlee, middle-class and Oxford-educated, became a committed socialist while a young social worker in London's East End and his rise as Deputy Minister during Churchill's wartime coalition and Prime Minister during Labour's creation of the welfare state from 1945-1951.
Download or read book Clement Attlee a Political Biography written by Trevor D. Burridge and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1985 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leven en werk van de Engelse politicus en staatsman Clement Richard Attlee (1883-1967).
Download or read book Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair 1945 2005 written by Matthias M Matthijs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period from 1945 to 2005, Britain underwent two deep-seated institutional transformations when political elites successfully challenged the prevailing wisdom on how to govern the economy. Attlee and Thatcher were able to effectively implement most of their political platforms. During this period there were also two opportunities to challenge existing institutional arrangements. Heath's 'U-turn' in 1972 signalled his failure to implement the radical agenda promised upon election in 1970, whilst Tony Blair’s New Labour similarly failed to instigate a major break with the 'Thatcherite' settlement. Rather than simply retell the story of British economic policymaking since World War II, this book offers a theoretically informed version of events, which draws upon the literatures on institutional path dependence, economic constructivism and political economy to explain this puzzle. It will be of great interest to both researchers and postgraduates with an interest in British economic history and the fields of political economy and economic crisis more widely.
Download or read book A Century of Premiers written by D. Leonard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Download or read book Attlee written by Kenneth Harris and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Clement Attlee covers his life from his birth in 1883 in Surrey to how he became a socialist in his late teens, and worked for the Labour Party before becoming an MP. Also, the story of how he became Labour Leader in 1935, was deputy to Churchill in the wartime coalition, and then was Prime Minister from 1945-1951.
Download or read book The Attlee Governments 1945 1951 written by Kevin Jefferys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945 the Labour Government set about a major transformation of British society, Dr Jefferys's analyses the main changes and relates them to debates within the Labour party, on the nature of its aims and how best to achieve them.
