Attlee

by David Howell

Overview

Former British Prime Minister best known for the creation of the National Health Service.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904950646
Publisher:	Haus Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2006
Series:	Life&Times Series
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

David Howell is Professor of Politics at the University of York, and one of Britain's leading experts in Labour Movement history. He is the editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography and author of (amongst others) A Lost Left and Respectable Radicals: Studies in the Politics of Railway Trade Unionism.

Table of Contents

The Life
An Unlikely Socialist     1
Stepney and Parliament     15
Party Leader and the War Cabinet     41
The Leadership
'Annus Mirabilis'     59
'Annus Horribilis'     94
The Legacy
Assessment     127
Notes     146
Chronology     153
Further Reading     160
Picture Sources     166
Index     167