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During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury – The Man who Stayed too Long
- 2 Arthur James Balfour – Bob's your Uncle
- 3 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman – 'A Good, Honest Scotchman'
- 4 Herbert Henry Asquith – Not Quite in the Gladstone Mould
- 5 David Lloyd George – 'A Dynamic Force'
- 6 Andrew Bonar Law – Tory Puritan
- 7 Stanley Baldwin – 'A Man of the Most Utter Insignificance'?
- 8 James Ramsay MacDonald – An 'Aristocrat' among Plain Men?
- 9 Neville Chamberlain – A Family Affair
- 10 Winston Churchill – His Finest Hour
- 11 Clement Attlee – Quiet Revolutionary
- 12 Sir Anthony Eden – Self-Destruction of a Prince Charming
- 13 Harold Macmillan – Idealist into Manipulator
- 14 Sir Alec Douglas-Home – Right Man, Wrong Century?
- 15 Harold Wilson – Master – or Victim – of the Short Term
- 16 Edward Heath – Cheerleader for Europe
- 17 James Callaghan – Labour's conservative
- 18 Margaret Thatcher – Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady
- 19 John Major – 'Thatcherism with a Human Face'
- 20 Tony Blair – Governing against his Party
- Appendix: Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century
- Index