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Attlee's Great Contemporaries : The Politics of Character by Frank Field (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-100826432247
ISBN-139780826432247
eBay Product ID (ePID)71732400
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAttlee's Great Contemporaries : the Politics of Character
SubjectPolitical Process / General, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Political, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorFrank Field
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition22
Reviews'Frank Field has done a commendable service in bringing together this fine collection of the essays Clement Attlee published ... You'll learn a great deal from these pages ... There's real gold in this book to be found' - Tribune, 'The editor of this nicely produced book has performed a useful service in rescuing a number of Atlee's sharper observations from obscurity.' - Anthony Howard, Church Times, 'Charming ... The idea for this book is such a good one ... The portraits are fascinating: sharp character sketches of the great figures and their life and times from an age we've forgotten.' - Austin Mitchell, House Magazine, "Frank Field, the MP for Birkenhead whose personal integrity and moral centre mark him out as a shining light among our current crop of parliamentarians, has collected an intriguing array of writings by Attlee, the modest and clear-minded politician who took the bus to work ... Attlee&'s book reviews, are especially striking, precise and measured, benefitting from his proximity to the great people and events of his day." - Paul Lay, History Today - http://historytodayeditor.blogspot.com/, Article by David Lister, The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/david-lister/david-lister-film-can-learn-from-theatre-1765911.html &, 'A charming evocation of the remarkable man that Attlee was.' - Stephen Halliday, Times Higher Education, Article by David Lister, The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/david-lister/david-lister-film-can-learn-from-theatre-1765911.html, 'Gathers together a selection of witty, caustic pen portraits from 1951 to 1966. A gem.' - A Total Politics essential summer read, 'Attlee's Great Contemporaries takes us back to an age when people went into politics to help the poor and strive for the common good, not to fill their pockets with taxpayers' money ... This is why Clement Attlee still matters. Indeed, let's hope that every MP has the sense to read this new book and to show their appreciation in the appropriate manner - by starting to mend our broken political system.' - Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail, "Frank Field, the MP for Birkenhead whose personal integrity and moral centre mark him out as a shining light among our current crop of parliamentarians, has collected an intriguing array of writings by Attlee, the modest and clear-minded politician who took the bus to work ... Attlee's book reviews, are especially striking, precise and measured, benefitting from his proximity to the great people and events of his day." - Paul Lay, History Today - http://historytodayeditor.blogspot.com/, "The Labour MP Frank Field has gathered a selection of [Clement Attlee's] articles, from 1951 to 1966, which have never been published as an anthology before, and what sharp, witty and revealing masterpieces of concision they are ... Field has done a great service in reminding us to turn our ears to laconic little Clem. This particular quiet man, these articles show, had rather a lot to say." - Sholto Byrnes, The Sunday Independent, 'A fascinating and detailed introduction ... Frank field has done us all a great favour in publishing this book and collating many of the articles Attlee wrote about his contemporaries.' - Methodist Recorder
Dewey Decimal320.092241
Table Of ContentIntroduction by Frank Field 1. Montgomery: My Assessment 2. Blaming Eisenhower 3. Ernest Bevin: A Name for Loyalty 4. George Lansbury 5. Winston Spencer Churchill as I knew him 6. Nye Bevan 7. The Changing Role of the Member of Parliament 8. Blaming Eisenhower 9. On the art of being Prime Minister 10. Party Discipline Afterword by Professor Peter Hennessy
SynopsisA collection of Clement Attlee's writings - brought together by Frank Field MP - that comment on political leadership today., In 1946, Clement Attlee came to power as Labour Prime Minister with a huge landslide majority. Under his leadership, some of the greatest reforms were initiated, not least the founding of The National Health Service. Attlee had a firm vision of a more just and equitable society, which the nation wanted. This firm vision is something that attracts Frank Field. To Field, Attlee is a hero. After retirement, Clement Attlee wrote a masterly series of profiles of his great contemporaries, many published at the time in The Observer. These are now collected together in a book for the first time. They are of extraordinary historical interest and will command an audience in their own right. In them we see how Attlee emphasised the importance of character for successful politics. To Field they epitomise the intellect and humanity of a hero of 20th Century politics, a man with profound qualities that are so poorly represented in today's politics. In a brilliant and most controversial introduction, Frank Field argues just how radical Attlee was, wishing, for example, to realign British foreign and defence policy. In his epilogue, Professor Peter Hennessy, shows the importance of Attlee in full historical perspective., In 1946, Clement Attlee came to power as Labour Prime Minister with a huge landslide majority. Under his leadership, some of the greatest reforms were initiated, not least the founding of The National Health Service. Attlee had a firm vision of a more just and equitable society, which the nation wanted. This firm vision is something that attracts Frank Field. To Field, Attlee is a hero. After retirement, Clement Attlee wrote a masterly series of profiles of his great contemporaries, many published at the time in The Observer. These are now collected together in a book for the first time. They are of extraordinary historical interest and will command an audience in their own right. In them we see how Attlee emphasised the importance of character for successful politics. To Field they epitomise the intellect and humanity of a hero of 20th Century politics, a man with profound qualities that are so poorly represented in today's politics. In a brilliant and most controversial introduction, Frank Field argues just how radical Attlee was, wishing, for example, to realign British foreign and defence policy. In his epilogue, Professor Peter Hennessy, shows the importance of Attlee in full historical perspective. >
LC Classification NumberDA566.9
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