Overview
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Richard Aldous
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University College, Dublin, Ireland
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Sabine Lee
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University of Birmingham, UK
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Richard Aldous, Sabine Lee
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Back Matter
Pages 255-258
About this book
Even 35 years after Harold Macmillan's resignation in 1963, opinions are sharply divided over his achievements as a politician and prime minister. This volume contributes to the debate about Macmillan's political role, his successes and his failures, by examining key aspects of his political life. Biographers, historians, and contemporaries present facets of Macmillan's life, his political visions, his skills, successes and failures in his personal life as well as in his domestic and foreign policies. With most official papers covering his active political life until his resignation now in the public domain, a more considered judgement about his party political and his governmental activities is possible. Taking account of this newly-available documentary evidence, there is much yet to be written on Harold Macmillan's career, but this collection bears witness to the fact that his was a magnificent life.
Reviews
'Scholars of the Macmillan years will none the less find a great deal to interest them in this book. If the present view of Macmillan remains, as the editors suggest, that he was 'all style and no substance', there is much here that will serve as a corrective.' - D.J. Dutton, Contemporary British Politcs
Editors and Affiliations
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University College, Dublin, Ireland
Richard Aldous
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University of Birmingham, UK
Sabine Lee
About the editors
PIERS LUDLOW British Academy Junior Research Fellow in Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford
SCOTT LUCAS Head of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham
SIR CURTIS KEEBLE former Ambassador to the Soviet Union
JOHN SUBRITZKY Policy Officer, New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
NICK CROWSON Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary British History, University of Birmingham
RICHARD LAMB Public Record Office
SIR OLIVER WRIGHT former Ambassador to Copenhagen, Bonn and Washington
CHARLES LYSAGHT former Barrister, Lecturer and Legal Adviser in Dublin
LEWIS JOHNMAN Quintin Hogg Research Fellow in History, University of Westminster
SABINE LEE Lecturer of German History, University of Birmingham
DONETTE MURRAY part-time Lecturer, University of Ulster
