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Book Synopsis The Hugo Young Papers by : Hugo Young
Download or read book The Hugo Young Papers written by Hugo Young and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Young was one of Britain’s leading journalists for over thirty years, first on the Sunday Times, where he was political editor and deputy editor, and then as the Guardian’s senior political commentator. On his death in 2003 he was called ‘the Pope of the liberal left’, but for the last decade or more of his life there was really no more admired and respected journalist in any position on the political spectrum. One of the secrets of Young’s success as a journalist was that he was exceptionally well informed. Politicians from every major party, senior civil servants, judges and public figures of all kinds talked to him off the record, discussions which then informed the judgements he made when he wrote. Most of his interlocutors were unaware that straight after their telephone conversation, meal or meeting with Young had finished, he meticulously wrote down exactly what had been said, together with his own immediate impressions of whoever he was talking to. By 2003, Young’s records from such conversations amounted to a million and a half words. From this extraordinary archive Ion Trewin, who knew Young since they were colleagues in the 1960s, has made a selection which presents a unique record of what many of the leading figures in British political and public life were thinking, frankly and without the distortions of hindsight, for more than three decades. The result is one of the most gripping and informative books about British politics published for many years. Young’s first interviewee, Douglas Hurd, later Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, and one of his regulars for the whole of the period of this book, judged him thus: ‘His success was partly achieved by creating a conversation between two people roughly equal in status and knowledge. His own preconception sometimes appeared, as is natural in a conversation between equals, but never in a way which interrupted the even flow of discourse. He did not distort what he heard.’ The Hugo Young Papers shows Young’s central place in the nexus between politics and journalism in Britain and provides a historical document of the first rank.
Book Synopsis The Hugo Young Papers by : Hugo Young
Download or read book The Hugo Young Papers written by Hugo Young and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Young was one of Britain's leading journalists for over 30 years, first on the Sunday Times and then as the Guardian's senior political commentator. This selection presents Young's central place in the nexus between politics and journalism in Britain, providing a historical document of the first rank.
Book Synopsis William Armstrong and British Policy Making by : Kevin Theakston
Download or read book William Armstrong and British Policy Making written by Kevin Theakston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period. He was at the centre of the British government policy-making machine for over 30 years – the very incarnation of the ‘permanent government’ of the country. He was the indispensable figure at the right hand of successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, and a reforming Head of the Civil Service. His role and power was such that he was controversially dubbed ‘deputy prime minister’ under Edward Heath. The book also casts light on wider institutional, political and historical issues around the working and reform of the civil service and the government machine, the policy-making process, and the experience in office of Labour and Conservative governments from the 1940s to the 1970s. ;;;;;;;;;;;
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Conservative Party Social Policy by : B. Williams
Download or read book The Evolution of Conservative Party Social Policy written by B. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have changed within this particular policy sphere, the book explores various theoretical, social, political, and electoral dimensions of the subject matter.
Download or read book Political Lives written by Hugo Young and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Lives is a personal selection by editor Hugo Young of mini-biographies taken from the Dictionary of National Biography of some of the most important figures in British political life of the last century. The selection has been based not only on the subject of the biography but alsoon the biographer, as Hugo Young explains in his introduction, which in itself is a pleasure to read.This title, following on from the success of Brief Lives, which was first published in hardback in 1997 and later in paperback, will be published alongside two related volumes, Literary Lives and Stage and Screen Lives.Approximately 100 articles have been chosen, each written by men and women well known in the political field in their own right. They include noted civil servants as well as MPs, members of the House of Lords, and local politicians. Examples of some of the entries:Edward Heath on William ArmstrongMaurice Shock on Clement AttleeJ. Enoch Powell on Nigel BirchIan Gilmour on R. A. Butler Roy Jenkins on Richard CroslandThomas Jones on Andrew Bonar LawMichael Foot on Jennie LeeJonathan Aitken on Selwyn LloydRichard Griffiths on Oswald Mosley John Cole on George WoodcockHarold Macmillan on John WyndhamThis hightly readable and interesting anthology is lively and insightful and should appeal to a broad spectrum of general readers with an interest in British politics and the lives of those at Westminster and Whitehall.
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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis After Number 10 by : Kevin Theakston
Download or read book After Number 10 written by Kevin Theakston and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime ministers do? In the first book to look at the lives, political roles and influence of former prime ministers, Kevin Theakston offers a comprehensive analysis of all the former prime ministers from Robert Walpole in the 18th century to Tony Blair today. This lively and informative book will appeal to those interested in British history as well as in contemporary politics. "You are very ex as an ex-prime minister", it has been said. "The telephone goes and immediately you think, Oh goodness me, the United Nations is sitting", Margaret Thatcher admitted. "Then you realize that it's no longer you any more." Some former prime ministers fade into the background, but others have continued to play a significant role in politics – sometimes constructively, but sometimes quite the reverse. Some enhance their reputations after they leave Number 10, but others damaged their reputations badly. This book sheds new light on the people who have held the highest office in British government.
Download or read book One of Us written by Hugo Young and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed political biography, Hugo Young traces Thatcher’s journey from her apprenticeship under Harold Macmillan and her participation in the government of Edward Heath, to her unquestioning destruction of the Conservatism of the 1950s and 1960s and her emergence as a senior stateswoman of the Western world. Drawing on his first-hand experience of covering British politics during the 1970s and 80s, Young presents unique insight into Margaret Thatcher’s final term and the astonishing story of her fall. Richly detailed, intimate and with a full assessment of her historical importance, this is the ultimate portrait of Britain’s first female Prime Minister and her influence on British politics.‘Hugo Young’s wonderfully deadpan biography scrutinises our domestic version of a banana-republic supremo. To be read through twice – and carefully kept for reference’ Norman Lewis, Daily Telegraph ‘Young tells the Thatcher story with fairness and natural elegance, and constructs a rich and subtle portrait’ Peter Jenkins ‘The best book on Mrs Thatcher and the modern Conservative period’ Malcolm Rutherford, Financial Times ‘A remarkable portrait of the most partisan, embattled prime minister of modern times’ Sunday Times ‘a magnificently authoritative work, a textbook to its epoch . . . In its explanatory power, this book is outstanding: a tour de force of political commentary’ Spectator
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