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Brief Essays about Eleven British Prime Ministers
2010/3/21
投稿者 John M. Lewis
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The late Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford, has written brief evaluations of the eleven British prime ministers between the mid-1930s and the mid-1980s. As a prominent politician himself, he met them all and knew several of them well; he served as a cabinet minister under two of them. His lifelong position within the British ruling class and governing elite gave him an invaluable vantage point from which to view politics from the inside through these fifty years. The period covered by these essays includes the years of appeasement under Baldwin and Chamberlain; the war years under Churchill; post-war recontruction, the cold war, and the end of empire under Attlee, Eden, and Macmillan; economic problems and the European Union under Home, Wilson, Heath, and Callaghan; and the sharp change in economic and domestic policies with Thatcher. Longford was, for most of his life, a committed socialist and a devout Christian, and these themes recur throughout the essays but without a trace of doctrinaire dogmatism. He finds things to admire and like in all eleven of the prime ministers, Conservative and Labour, though perhaps he admires Attlee the most and Thatcher the least. The essays are beautifully written, and full of anecdote, reminiscence, and thoughtful, critical analysis. They assume some knowledge of British government and political history in this period, but will nevertheless be accessible to a wide audience. The book is a delight. Longford himself emerges as a generous, warm, and perceptive guide.
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