Portraits and Miniatures
1st Edition
Published on 28. September 2011
332 pages
978-1-4482-0288-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Portraits and Miniatures, Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intelligence and elegant prose to subjects ranging from literature and political history to wine and croquet. Long experience in both Houses of Parliament and as President of the European Commission has given him unparalleled insight into political figures such as R. A. Butler, Aneurin Bevan, Konrad Adenauer, and de Gaulle. A varied selection of essays, Portraits and Miniatures is fascinating, witty, and endlessly entertaining.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-0288-1 (9781448202881)
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Person
Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Jenkins (1920- 2003) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death, a position he held until his death. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title page
- Contents
- Introduction
- R. A. Butler
- Aneurin Bevan
- Iain Macleod
- Dean Acheson
- Konrad Adenauer
- Charles de Gaulle
- John Henry Newman and the Idea of a University
- Changing Patterns of Leadership: From Asquith via Baldwin and Attlee to Margaret Thatcher
- An Oxford View of Cambridge
- Glasgow's Place in the Cities of the World
- High Victorian Trollope
- Two Hundred Years of The Times
- Bologna's Birthday
- Anniversaries in Pall Mall
- Ten Pieces of Wine Nonsense
- Should Politicians Know History?
- Oxford's Appeal to Americans
- The British University Pattern
- A Selection of Political Biographies
- The Maxim Gun of the English Language
- Croquet Taken Too Seriously
- Leopold Amery
- David Astor and the Observer
- Beaverbrook
- Richard Crossman
- Garret FitzGerald
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- François Guizot
- Nigel Lawson
- Selwyn Lloyd
- The Longfords
- Fraçois Mitterrand
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Cecil Parkinson
- Enoch Powell
- Andrei Sakharov
- Herbert Samuel
- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
- John Simon
- G. M. Trevelyan
- Lord Young of Graffham
- Harold Wilson
- Footnote
- ch09
- ch09
- ch11
- ch11
- ch17
- ch17
- ch17
- Imprint
