David Torrance

The Wild Men

The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government -- A Waterstones Book of the Year 2024

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The incredible story of the first Labour administration and the 'wild men' who shook up the British establishment, with a fully updated new Preface.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781399411479
• ISBN-10: 1399411470
• Artikelnr.: 70601733

Autorenporträt

David Torrance

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 'A serious national misfortune'
2 'The most horrible job in my life'
3 Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister: 'A mass of contradictions'
4 Arthur Henderson: 'Uncle Arthur'
5 John Wheatley: 'A traditional Mr. Pickwick'
6 Philip Snowden: 'A free breakfast table'
7 Charles Trevelyan: 'Secondary education for all'
8 'Rabbits out of a hat'
9 William Adamson: 'Far from revolutionary'
10 Jimmy Thomas: 'No mucking about with the British Empire'
11 Viscount Haldane: Tidying Up the Constitution
12 Ramsay MacDonald as Foreign Secretary: Creating a New Atmosphere
13 Sir Patrick Hastings: 'By whose representation?'
14 The 'Red Letter' Election
15 Whither the Wild Men?
16 Reassessing Britain's First Labour Government
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
The Labour Government (22 January-4 November 1924)
Timeline of the First Labour Government
Endnotes
Picture Credits
Index

Rezensionen

[Keir Starmer] could do worse than read this book to ponder what history can teach.