Attlee: A Life in Politics Thomas-Symonds Nick
Attlee: A Life in Politics Thomas-Symonds Nick 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…
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Attlee: A Life in Politics Thomas-Symonds Nick
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. How did such a moderate, modest man bring about so many enduring changes? Yet somehow Attlee the man remains elusive.
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. What are the secrets of his leadership style? With almost 50 percent of the popular vote, Attlee seemed to have achieved the platform for Labour to dominate post-war British