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Haldane - The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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Haldane - The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British
Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5,
MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick'
universities and the Medical Research Council? This book reveals
that great figure: Richard Burdon Haldane. As a
philosopher-statesman, his groundbreaking proposals on defence,
education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his
time-the very building blocks of modern Britain. His networks
ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, King to
Kaiser; he pioneered cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in
1915 Haldane was ejected from the Liberal government, unjustly
vilified as a German sympathiser. John Campbell charts these ups
and downs, reveals Haldane's intensely personal side through
previously unpublished private correspondence, and shows his
enormous relevance in our search for just societies today. Amidst
political and national instability, it is time to reinstate Haldane
as Britain's outstanding example of true statesmanship. A Sunday
Times Politics and Current Affairs Book of the Year, 2020. A
Telegraph Best Book of the Year, 2020.
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