Citizen Clem. A Biography Of Attlee

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Riverrun
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 688 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Easily the best single-volume, cradle-to-grave life of Clement Attlee yet written. Andrew Roberts Fascinating . . . He writes with flair and considerable intellectual confidence Jason Cowley, Financial Times He has written with verve and confidence a first-rate life . . . What a life and what a man Daniel Finkelstein, Times Outstanding . . .Bews achievement is not only to bring this curious and introverted man to life but to make him oddly loveable Robert Harris, Sunday Times The gallons of ink spilled on Winston Churchill - and the huge appetite for books about him - have created something of an imbalance in our understanding of twentieth-century Britain. Not only does Clement Attlees life deserve to have a rightful place alongside the Churchill legend. It is also more emblematic, and more representative, of Britain in his time. It is difficult to think of another individual through whom one can better tell the story of how Britain changed from the high imperialism of Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee of 1897, through two world wars, the great depression, the nuclear age and the Cold War, and the transition from empire into commonwealth. The story of Attlee is also much more dramatic than he himself ever made out - and not without an element of heroism. Here was a man born in the governing class who devoted his life to the service of the poor; who was carried off the battlefield three times in the First World War; who stood shoulder to shoulder with Churchill at Britains darkest moment, and then triumphed over him at the general election of 1945. His government of 1945-51 included Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison and Nye Bevan and was the most radical in history, giving us the NHS, National Insurance, NATO and the atomic bomb. In many ways we still live in a world of Attlees creation. This book will pierce the reticence of Attlee and explore the intellectual foundations and core beliefs of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century British history, arguing that he remains underappreciated, rather than simply underestimated. It will reveal a public servant and patriotic socialist, who never lost sight of the national interest and whose view of humanity and belief in solidarity was grafted onto the Union Jack.

ISBN: 9781780879895