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The Tories: Conservatives And The Nation State, 1922-1997: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97

The Tories: Conservatives And The Nation State, 1922-1997: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97

by Alan Clark (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

For the better part of this century the Conservatives have been the governing political party of Britain. During that period the country has fallen in stature by virtually every criterion of measurement which can be applied. Yet the primary objective of the Conservative Party, or so it claims and its supporters believe, is to advance and protect the interests of the British Nation-State. How are we to understand its catastrophic and repetitious failure, over practically the whole of this period, to achieve that objective?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 608
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0753807653
ISBN 13: 9780753807651
Book Overview: Alan Clark not only has personal experience of Government, he is also a highly-acclaimed historian Hardback was serialised in The Times Alan Clark's Diaries has sold nearly 250,000 copies in paperback 'As one might expect from Britain's foremost political maverick, this is a highly idiosyncratic work ... it is compulsively readable and abounds in perception and witty insights' Evening Standard 'A wonderfully entertaining book, as one would expect from his hilarious diaries. But he is a serious historian and he has a case' Sunday Times 'As good as a novel. A book to be devoured, relished and argued over. There is something to be savoured on every page' Daily Telegraph

Author Bio
Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three vols) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by teh BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.