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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Toye; Julie V Gottlieb |
| ISBN: | 9781850438410 1850438412 |
| OCLC Number: | 60514013 |
| Description: | 243 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Richard Toye and Julie Gottlieb -- Constructing life stories / Peter Marsh -- Gladstonian liberalism and the rehabilitation of Robert Lowe, 1866-1868 / Kristin Zimmerman -- 'Squiff', 'Lliar George', and 'the McKennae' : the unpersuasive politics of personality in the Asquith coalition, 1915-16 / Martin Farr -- Charismatic leadership, c. 1870-1914 : a comparative European perspective / Henk te Velde -- An exemplary communist life? : Harry Pollitt's Serving my time in comparative perspective / Kevin Morgan -- A Mosleyite life stranger than fiction : the making and remaking of Olive Hawks / Julie Gottlieb -- Winston Churchill and the 'men of destiny' : leadership and the role of the prime minister in wartime feature films / Jo Fox -- 'Let us go forward together' : Clementine Churchill and the role of the personality in wartime Britain / Helen Jones -- The trials of a biographer : Roy Harrod's Life of John Maynard Keynes reconsidered / Richard Toye -- 'Our Amazonian colleague' : Edith Summerskill's problematic reputation / Penny Summerfield -- Michael Foot as Labour leader : the uses of the past / Paul Corthorn -- 'I don't think of myself as the first woman prime minister' : gender, identity and image in Margaret Thatcher's career / Anneke Ribberink -- New Labour and The Sun, 1994-97 / Sam Gallagher. |
| Series Title: | International library of political studies, 5. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Richard Toye and Julie Gottlieb. |
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'The contributions are never less than absorbing...'Trevor Russell, Public Servant, 7th October 2005
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