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The tortoise and the hares : Attlee, Bevin, Cripps, Dalton, Morrison

Title: The tortoise and the hares : Attlee, Bevin, Cripps, Dalton, Morrison / Giles Radice.
Author: Radice, Giles.
Publication: London : Politico's, 2008.

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Description

xiv, 290 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Despite being one of the least charismatic Prime Ministers of recent times, Attlee's premiership was one of great achievement, thanks to the Hares who served under the Tortoise. His government introduced the welfare state and the National Health Service, nationalised the major utilities, gave independence to India, Pakistan and Ceylon and helped to found NATO. Attlee and the Labour government needed the ideas, inspiration and drive that his more dynamic ministers provided; he needed his colleagues as much as they needed him." "Giles Radice draws on the National Archive documents, diaries, interviews and secondary sources to provide a book of wide appeal, sharp, colourful and well written. It is for anyone who wishes to know more about this crucial period of modern history, whose influence lives on."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

9781842752234
1842752235

LCCN

2009379373

OCLC

ocn261948103
261948103
SCSB-14123661

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library