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Clement Attlee : the man who made modern Britain / John Bew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bew, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967.
- Attlee, C. R.
- Labour Party (Great Britain)--Biography.
- Labour Party (Great Britain).
- Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-1964.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 670 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Part I. Patriot, citizen, soldier, 1889-1918
- Introduction: the red flag
- With apologies to Rudyard Kipling
- News from nowhere
- The soldier
- Part II. The making of a politician, 1918-1931
- Looking backward
- Building Jerusalem
- Fame is the spur
- Part III. Albion's troubles, 1931-1940
- The Bullion family
- The anti-Cromwell
- The Major Attlee company and the clenched-fist salute
- A word to Winston
- Part IV. Finest hour, 1940-1945
- All behind you, Winston
- The hunting of the snark
- The invisible man
- Part V. New Jerusalem, New Deal, 1945-1947
- To hope till hope creates
- English traits, American problems
- The British New Deal
- Empire into commonwealth
- Part VI. After New Jerusalem, 1948-1955
- In Barchester all is not well
- Taxis, teeth and hospital beds
- The pilgrim's progress
- Part VII. Mission's end, 1955-1967
- Few thought he was even a starter
- Epilogue: the promised land.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190203405
- 0190203404
- OCLC:
- 954038344
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