Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey - Couverture souple

Radice, Giles

 
9780349117348: Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0349117349 ISBN 13 : 9780349117348
Editeur : Abacus, 2003

Synopsis

In the 1976 Labour Party leadership election following Harold Wilson's surprise resignation as Prime Minister, the then Foreign Secretary Jim Callaghan was Wilson's favourite to succeed him. The main candidate of the Left was Michael Foot. The three most prominent standard bearers of the modernising tendency inside the Party were Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland. All three had been exact contemporaries at Oxford University and each had more in common than separated them. Yet they could not get together and sort things out between them - and Callaghan won. Giles Radice's elegantly written comparative biography of a group is an analysis of how the combined overall achievement of the three amounts to less than it might have been - how friendship and mutual rivalry, despite individual eminence and brilliance, are corrosive and damaging forces.

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À propos de l?auteur

The Rt Hon Lord Radice was Labour MP for Durham North until he was made a Life Peer in 2000. He has been Chairman of the European Movement since 1995.

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Éditeur
Abacus
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0349117349
ISBN 13 
9780349117348
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780316855471: Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0316855472 ISBN 13 :  9780316855471
Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 2002
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