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Attlee - A Life in Politics (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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Attlee - A Life in Politics (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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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.
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