INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: GROWING UP IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1883 - 1901 CHAPTER TWO: FROM OXFORD TO THE EAST END, 1901 - 1914 CHAPTER THREE: THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914-1918 CHAPTER FOUR: THE POLITICAL APPRENTICESHIP, 1918-1922 CHAPTER FIVE: A NEW MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, 1922-24 CHAPTER SIX: OPPOSITION AND INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1924-30 CHAPTER SEVEN: IN GOVERNMENT, 1930-1931 CHAPTER EIGHT: BACK IN OPPOSITION, 1931-35 CHAPTER NINE: LABOUR LEADERSHIP, 1935-39 CHAPTER TEN: FROM OPPOSITION TO GOVERNMENT, 1939 - 1942 CHAPTER ELEVEN: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND DOMINIONS SECRETARY, 1942-43 CHAPTER TWELVE: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL, 1943 - 45 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE 1945 GENERAL ELECTION CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ATTLEE AS PRIME MINISTER CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE SCALE OF THE CHALLENGE, JULY - NOVEMBER 1945 CHAPTER SIXTEEN: FULFILLING THE PARTY’S AMBITIONS - NATIONAL INSURANCE, NATIONAL HEALTH, AND NATIONALIZATION, 1945 - 1948 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: INDIA CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1945-1951 CHAPTER NINETEEN: COAL AND CURRENCY: ATTLEE’S LEADERSHIP CRISIS OF 1947 CHAPTER TWENTY: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES? 1948-1949 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: POLITICAL TROUBLES, 1949-51 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: MANAGING THE PARTY, 1951-55 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: THE LAST YEARS, 1955-1967 CONCLUSION
Clement Attlee - the man who created welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britains' greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister. This title examines the myths that have arisen around this key figure of British political life and provides a portrait of the man and his politics.
Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds is Lecturer in politics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a practising barrister.
a thoroughly impressive piece of work - authoritative, reliable
andperceptive ... This is rightly billed as a 'political biography'
and in the realm of politics it is remarkably sure-footed
*Anthony Howard*
[a] brisk, well-written and admirably clear-sighted biography
*Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times*
Very interesting and well researched. The reader gets a real sense
ofAttlee's life and politics, and the portrait of him is
well-rounded andnuanced. This biography will be very useful for
students seeking to gain a clear understanding of Attlee and marks
a useful addition to the canon of Labour history
*Matthew Worley, Lecturer in History, University of Reading*
... to paraphrase Churchill, this was unquestionably Labour s
finest hour. But how much of this can be attributed to the
leadership of Clement Attlee himself? This is the question at the
heart of Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds excellent biography.
*Guy Lodge, LSE Review of Books*
... goes a long way towards explaining the Attlee enigma
*Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman*
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