
Herbert Morrison
Portrait of a Politician
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History (Publisher)
Published on 5. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
736 pages
978-1-84212-441-3 (ISBN)
Description
With a Foreword by his grandson, Peter Mandelson, this book tells the inspiring story of how 'the chirpy cockney sparrow' and young socialist agitator from Lambeth rose to rule London as Britain's most famous city boss and then, nationally, shaped the Labour Party's policies and directed its successful electoral strategies. In a succession of important Cabinet posts, he shared the catastrophe of Ramsay MacDonald's 1931 Government, was Churchill's inspired choice to fight the German blitz throughout the war, managed Labour's great post-1945 reconstruction programme and ended his career overwhelmed by problems and seemingly inexplicable failures as Foreign Secretary. As Peter Mandelson says in his Foreword:'Morrison is one of Labour's forgotten heroes...the quintessential political organiser...Writing this Foreword nearly four years into what I hope and believe will be the first term of a long period of Labour government, this is the essential Morrison maxim we must never ignore: delivery and renewal must go hand in hand. That Labour had finally learned the lessons of his own life would give my grandfather great joy. And for me it would b his finest memorial.'
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
29 B/W Photo\Illu(s)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1134 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84212-441-3 (9781842124413)
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Bernard Donoughue is a former Senior Lecturer in Politics at the LSE. He is currently a member of the House of Lords. G.W. Jones (George Jones) M.A., D.Phil. (Oxford): Professor of Government at LSE since 1976; member of the Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance (1974-76) and of the National Consumer Council (1991-99); in 1999 appointed to the Advisory Panel on Beacon Councils, and awarded the OBE.