Autor(en)

Horne, Alistair:

Verlag / Jahr

London : Viking, 1988.

Format / Einband

Original half cloth with dust jacket. XIX, 537 p., plates.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 990 g

ISBN

0670805025

EAN

9780670805020

Bestell-Nr

1182674

Bemerkungen

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Anschmutzung auf Fußschnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Soldier and scholar, publisher and Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan is one of the most complex and fascinating political figures of modern times. His term as Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963, years of unparalleled prosperity for postwar Britain, was only the culmination of a lifetime of extraordinary service and astonishing accomplishment—here documented in compelling detail by Alistair Horne. Drawing from extensive interviews with Macmillan himself, together with exclusive access to his copious and unpublished diaries, letters, and private papers, Horne reveals for the first time the real Macmillan behind the showman’s exterior. Remembered today as “Supermac,” Britain’s most urbane and unflappable statesman, Macmillan, for much of his life, was an insecure and unhappy man. Horne traces Macmillan's early life, the son of a powerful American mother and the scion of the renowned British publisher of Yeats, Wells, and Shaw. He chronicles Macmillan's entry into politics; the long wilderness years of the 1920s and 1930s, when his vociferous support for the unemployed and his hatred of the policies of appeasement distanced him from the Tory establishment; the near-breakup of his marriage to the Duke of Devonshire’s daughter; and the prominent role he played during World War II, serving in North Africa as the liaison between Churchill and Eisenhower. A leading architect of the Tory revival after the war, the one minister with the courage to force Churchill to resign, and a senior Cabinet Minister in the 1951-56 governments, Macmillan emerged as the most powerful politician of the postwar Conservative Party. For the first time, the author divulges Macmillan’s full role during the Suez crisis of 1956, and explains why, when illness forced Anthony Eden to resign, it was Macmillan’s reputation as a decisive politician that won him the Prime Ministership. This first volume of the authorized biography ends with Macmillan, the lonely rebel of the 1930s, on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street. Immensely readable, widely researched, and powerfully argued, Alistair Horne’s biography is a portrait of unique dimension, but also a notable contribution to the history of our time. - Born in 1925. Alistair Horne was educated in Switzerland and America and at Cambridge University. In 1952 he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in Germany; he took up a full-time writing career in 1955. His books include a trilogy of the Franco-German conflict: The Fall of Paris: 1870-71, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (winner of the Hawthornden Prize), and To Lose a Battle: France 1940. A Savage War of Peace, when first published in 1977, won both the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize and the Wolfson Literary Award. Horne has been working on the official biography of Harold Macmillan for nearly ten years. ISBN 9780670805020

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