Rab: The Life Of R.A. Butler - Anthony Howard
KORTE INHOUD
Richard Austen Butler will always be remembered as the Conservative Party's 'uncrowned Prime Minister'. On the threshold of No. 10 three times in his career -- in 1953, when both Churchill and Eden were ill; in 1957, when he was almost universally expected to take over in the wake of Suez; and again in 1963, when an ailing Harold Macmillan ruthlessly blocked his succession -- his record of service in Government is still unmatched by any other twentieth-century politician except Churchill.
In this first biography of him to be written with access to his personal and political papers, Anthony Howard offers and unusually engaging portrait of one of the most fascinating characters in recent British public life. Independent, indiscreet and never anything but irreverent, Rab could not be accused of making Burke's mistake of 'giving up to Party what was meant for mankind'. Though he never seemed to enjoy the same popularity in his own Party that he commanded in the country at large, his achievements were remarkable. H...
In this first biography of him to be written with access to his personal and political papers, Anthony Howard offers and unusually engaging portrait of one of the most fascinating characters in recent British public life. Independent, indiscreet and never anything but irreverent, Rab could not be accused of making Burke's mistake of 'giving up to Party what was meant for mankind'. Though he never seemed to enjoy the same popularity in his own Party that he commanded in the country at large, his achievements were remarkable. H...
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