A Question of Leadership: From Gladstone to Thatcher

by PeterClarke (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.29

  20th century Britain is in many senses uncharted territory for historians, territory by and large left to sociologists and political theorists. In a series of essays on our political leaders from Gladstone and Salisbury through Lloyd George, Churchill and Attlee to Thatcher, this book looks at the questions of how individual leaders have shaped the history of our country, interacting with the social and economic forces beloved of sociologists, tackling the questions of the importance of political leadership and the extent to which history determined by socio-economic trends and the decisions of individuals?

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $5.08

  Did Margaret Thatcher make a difference to the 1980s? Did Churchill win World War II? What was Gladstone's contribution to liberalism? Were these leaders the product of their time and their parties or did they create them in their own likeness? This book examines these questions in a series of portraits of the formative politicians of the last hundred years. There are chapters on Gladstone, Salisbury, Joe Chamberlain, Asquith and Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Churchill, Maynard Keynes (who, though not a politician, set the agenda for 50 years), Dalton, Attlee, Macmillan, Bevan and Gaitskell, Wilson and Thatcher. The author also wrote The Keynesian Revolution in the Making 1924-1936