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Harold Wilson
- The Winner
Engelsk Paperback
Harold Wilson
- The Winner
Engelsk Paperback

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain''s Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour''s greatest ever election winner. How did he do it - and at what cost?

Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political calculator, even as a Soviet secret agent. In this powerful new portrait, drawing on previously unavailable sources and first-hand parliamentary insight, acclaimed biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds reveals a more complex figure. Wilson was a new kind of politician but, in his own way, this media-savvy harbinger of modernity was also a deeply traditional man, whose actions often suggest nothing less than a spiritual mission.

In an intriguing paradox, Wilson, influenced by the distinctively democratic faith of his Yorkshire boyhood, united a fractured Labour Party, ushering in the cultural and social changes of the ''swinging sixties''. His was the government to decriminalise homosexuality, legalise abortion and abolish capital punishment. With a brilliant mind, sure-footed political moves and a feel for public opinion, he was a survivor who over and over again emerged from desperate crises - even, perhaps, conspiracies - to lead his party to victory. It is time at last to learn his secrets.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
544
ISBN-13:
9781474611961
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1474611966
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2023
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2023
Forfatter(e):
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