Lloyd George
The People's Champion
Published on 1. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
468 pages
978-0-00-686307-6 (ISBN)
Description
The award-winning second volume of John Grigg's highly acclaimed biography of Lloyd George.
This sequel to Grigg's enthusiastically praised The Young Lloyd George describes the career of David Lloyd George from 1902 to 1911, its most exciting and fruitful phase before the out break of World War I.
In it he is seen evolving from the liveliest of Opposition back-benchers to the most dynamic and controversial member of a great Liberal government.
The central drama is the political constitutional conflict surrounding Lloyd George's 1909 Budget, but there are many fascinating sub-plots including his difficulties with the suffragettes and with several individual women.
As a whole, Grigg's portrait is sympathetic, yet not adverse to criticism, giving a vivid and fair impression of Lloyd George in relation to his leading contemporaries and as an outstanding figure of the Edwardian age.
This sequel to Grigg's enthusiastically praised The Young Lloyd George describes the career of David Lloyd George from 1902 to 1911, its most exciting and fruitful phase before the out break of World War I.
In it he is seen evolving from the liveliest of Opposition back-benchers to the most dynamic and controversial member of a great Liberal government.
The central drama is the political constitutional conflict surrounding Lloyd George's 1909 Budget, but there are many fascinating sub-plots including his difficulties with the suffragettes and with several individual women.
As a whole, Grigg's portrait is sympathetic, yet not adverse to criticism, giving a vivid and fair impression of Lloyd George in relation to his leading contemporaries and as an outstanding figure of the Edwardian age.
Reviews / Votes
'John Grigg is a biographer who loves his subject and captures him with artistry - a pleasure to read. He has given us the most intimate and subtly drawn portrait we have ever had of this remarkable man'Paul Addison, New Statesman
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
4 b/w illus, 8 b/w plates (8pp)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-686307-6 (9780006863076)
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Person
John Grigg was born in 1924. He won the Gladstone Memorial prize for history at Oxford and went on to become a journalist both at home and abroad. He was a columnist for the Guardian for 10 years and then a political correspondent for the Spectator. In 1978 he won the Whitbread Award for Lloyd George: The People's Champion 1902-1911.