Douglas Hurd
The Public Servant - An Authorised Biography
Mark Stuart(Author)
Mainstream Publishing
Published on 19. October 1998
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-1-84018-125-8 (ISBN)
Description
For nearly 16 years Douglas Hurd was at the heart of the British government as a minister. Serving under three consecutive Prime Ministers, he was involved in all major policy decisions of the day. In this authorised biography, Mark Stuart traces the career of the politician who was successively Northern Ireland Secretary, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. The author has had full access to Hurd's diaries and they give an insight into the premiership of Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major and to his contemporaries both in British government and on the world stage. The biography reveals evidence on the Thatcher and Major years. There is the revelation that Hurd's instincts after Hillsborough were that there had been one police disaster, possibly two; that senior Cabinet ministers drafted Mrs Thatcher's crucial speech on Westland while she waited upstairs, and the private tale of John Major's progressive loss of faith in human nature after the ERM failure.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Illustrations
16pp colour and b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
998 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84018-125-8 (9781840181258)
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Schweitzer Classification