Macmillan

by Francis Beckett

Overview

Fatherly friend to JFK he repaired the rift between the USA and Britain created by the Suez crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912208494
Publisher:	Haus Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2006
Series:	British Prime Ministers
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Francis Beckett is a freelance writer and journalist. His seven books include four biographies, of Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan, Laurence Olivier, and his own father, the Labour MP turned fascist leader John Beckett.

Table of Contents

The Life
The House of Macmillan (1894-1914)     1
The War that Changed Everything (1915-19)     10
Years of Hope and Despair (1919-29)     18
The Coming of Another War (1929-39)     30
The Ruler of the Mediterranean (1940-5)     42
Attlee and Churchill Remake Britain (1945-55)     59
'Wab or Hawold?' (1956)     67
The Leadership
Plucking Victory from the Jaws of Defeat (1957-9)     85
Plucking Defeat from the Jaws of Victory (1959-63)     94
The Legacy
'Selling the Family Silver' (1963-86)     113
The Last Edwardian, the First Moderniser     118
Notes     130
Chronology     135
Further Reading     144
Picture Sources     148
Index     150