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As British prime minister from 1945 to 1951, Clement Attlee built a legacy that includes today's famousāand controversialāNational Health Service, yet he is often remembered as a rather dull political figure. Rejecting Winston Churchill's jibe that Attlee was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," this biography makes the case that his reputation as Britain's greatest reforming prime minister is fully deserved.
Building on his earlier work on Attlee and including new research and stories, many of which are published here for the first time, Francis Beckett highlights Attlee's relevance for a new generation. A poet and dreamer, Attlee led a remarkable political life that saw, among other challenges, the beginning of the Cold War. Ultimately, this perceptive biography demonstrates that Attlee's ideas have never been more relevant.
Building on his earlier work on Attlee and including new research and stories, many of which are published here for the first time, Francis Beckett highlights Attlee's relevance for a new generation. A poet and dreamer, Attlee led a remarkable political life that saw, among other challenges, the beginning of the Cold War. Ultimately, this perceptive biography demonstrates that Attlee's ideas have never been more relevant.
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Biografie in ambito politicoNotes
Chapter 1
1. Mearns, Reverend Andrew, The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor (Clarke, London, 1883). Available online at: https://archive.org/details/
2. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened (Heinemann, London, 1954).
3. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience: Thomas Simons Attlee, 1880ā
1960 (Dove and Chough Press, London, 1995).
4. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience.
5. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
6. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience.
7. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
8. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
9. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
10. Attlee, Clement. āThe Pleasure of Booksā, Attleeās Great Contemporaries: The Politics of Character, ed. Frank Field (Bloomsbury, London, 2009).
11. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience.
12. Haileybury Official History housed in Haileybury School archives.
13. Haileybury Official History housed in Haileybury School archives.
14. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
15. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
16. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
17. Thompson, Paul, The Edwardians (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1975).
18. Jenkins, Roy, Mr Attlee: An Interim Biography (Heinemann, London, 1948).
19. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
20. Thompson, Paul, The Edwardians
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Attlee, Clement, The Social Worker (George Bell and Sons, London, 1920).
24. Harris, Kenneth, Attlee (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995).
25. Dear, John, Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priestās Journal from Jail (Rowman & Littlefield, Washington DC, 1995).
26. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
27. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
28. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
29. Clem Attleeās poems housed in Countess Attleeās collection.
Chapter 2
1. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened (Heinemann, London, 1954).
2. Hattersley, Roy, Campbell-Bannerman (Haus Publishing, London, 2006).
3. Jenkins, Roy, Mr Attlee: An Interim Biography (Heinemann, London, 1948).
4. Harris, Kenneth, Attlee (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995).
5. Hattersley, Roy, Campbell-Bannerman.
6. Harris, Kenneth, Attlee.
7. Dalton, Hugh, Call Back Yesterday: Memoirs,1887ā1931 (Frederick Muller, London, 1953).
8. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
9. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
10. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
11. Document headed āWritten on Walney Island, Barrow, 1918ā housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
12. Ibid.
13. Barrett, MichĆØle, Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War (Verso, London, 2007).
14. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience: Thomas Simons Attlee, 1880...
Table of contents
- About the author
- Labourās Great Reformer
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Two nations
- Mr Attlee makes himself indispensable
- Major Attlee's return to Limehouse
- Disillusion
- Leader of the Opposition
- Mr Attlee has a word with the PM
- The Prime Minister disposes
- The Cold War and the beginning of the end of Empire
- One nation: Building Jerusalem
- Austerity Attlee
- An Earl and a Knight of the Garter
- A note on sources
- Notes