Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan - D. R. Thorpe

Descriere Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan - D. R. Thorpe

\nPacked with new revelations about Macmillan's private life as well as key events including the Tolstoy controversy, the Suez Crisis, the You've Never Had It So Good speech, the Winds of Change speech, and the Profumo scandal \n The culmination of 35 years of research by a respected historian, this magisterial biography provides an unforgettable portrait of a turbulent age. Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was complex as a person and influential as a politician. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches in World War I and by his work as an MP during the Depression, he was a Tory rebel--an outspoken backbencher, opposing the economic policies of the 1930s and the appeasement policies of his own government. Churchill gave him responsibility during World War II with executive command as Viceroy of the Mediterrranean. After the war, in opposition, Macmillan overhauled the Conservatives on progressive and radical lines; after 1951, in government, he served as Minister of Housing, Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He became Prime Minister after the Suez Crisis, and between 1957 and 1963 presided over Great Britain's transition from the age of austerity to that of affluence. He also proved himself one of the great publishers of his generation.

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Random House Uk

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9781844135417

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