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Author : MICHAEL. HILL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781038727367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (273 download)
Download or read book LOST PRIME MINISTERS written by MICHAEL. HILL and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459749340
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Lost Prime Ministers written by Michael Hill and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years. From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper headed the government of Canada in rapid succession. Each came to the job with qualifications and limitations, and each left after unexpectedly short terms. Yet these reluctant prime ministers are an important part of our political legacy. Their roles were much more than caretakers between the administrations of two great leaders. Personal tragedy, terrible health issues, backstabbing, and political manipulation all led to their eventual downfalls. The Lost Prime Ministers is the dramatic saga of these overlooked Canadian leaders.
Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852851255
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Lost Prime Minister written by David Nicholls and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Charles Dilke's claim to a leading place in the pantheon of Victorian radicalism, with Cobden, Bright and Chamberlain, has been overshadowed by the sensational divorce case in 1886 that ruined his career. Yet his political abilities were great and his career a most remarkable one. He was regarded by many of his contemporaries as a likely successor to Gladstone and a probable future Prime Minister. It can be argued that his political eclipse was a crucial contributing factor to the Liberal Party's failure to provide a viable alternative to the rise of the Labour Party. This is the first new biography of Dilke since Roy Jenkins' Sir Charles Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy, published in 1958. David Nicholls has used substantial new material to provide what is likely to be the definitive work on Dilke, shedding new light on his character, personal life and political career, as well as on the famous divorce scandal. This highly readable book is both an account of a remarkable man and an important contribution to the understanding of Victorian politics.
Author : Peter Whiteley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1852851457
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Lord North written by Peter Whiteley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord North was in many ways a most successful politician. Prime Minister for an unbroken twelve years, his management of both parliament and of the business of government was adept. He enjoyed the confidence of King George III, not always an easy political ally, avoided factional strife (having no political following of his own), was notably uncorrupt and made virtually no enemies. In many ways he epitomised the political outlook and aristocratic assumptions of the eighteenth century. He is, however, principally remembered for presiding over Britain's loss of her American colonies. Lord North: The Prime Minister Who Lost America is a scholarly but highly readable account of his life. It includes a full study of the American War of Independence, examining it from the perspective of the British government as well as from the colonial standpoint. No senior politician had visited America and few had a proper knowledge or understanding of Americans. Too often the colonists were regarded as unruly and ungrateful children, with whom compromise was either a sign of weakness or the betrayal of the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. Highmindedness contributed to the final humiliation, as did ignorant overconfidence. Military defeat, to a country that had become preeminent in Europe by the end of the Seven Years War, was not entertained as a possibility.
Author : David Nicholls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472599728
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Lost Prime Minister written by David Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Brack
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849542457
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Prime Minister Boris written by Duncan Brack and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History resting on a hair's breadth ... a man dies rather than lives, an election is lost rather than won, one minister is appointed, another dismissed, a coalition is joined, or not. Enter a world of political counterfactuals, twenty-two examinations of things that never happened - but could have. In this book a collection of distinguished commentators, including journalists, academics, former MPs and special advisers, consider how things might have turned out differently throughout a century of political history - from Lloyd George and Keynes drowning at sea in 1916 right through to Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister in 2016. Scholarly analyses of possibilities and causalities take their place beside fictional accounts of alternate political histories - and all are guaranteed to entertain and make you think.
Author : Anuj Dhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386473356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Your Prime Minister is Dead written by Anuj Dhar and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Pearce
Publisher : Warner Futura
ISBN 13 : 9780751523614
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Lost Leaders written by Edward Pearce and published by Warner Futura. This book was released on 1998 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every politician who gets to the top, to No.10 Downing Street, there is at least one, sometimes more, who was going to be Prime Minister. THE LOST LEADERS consists of three long biographical essays about the best Prime Ministers we never got. R A Butler, Denis Healey and Iain Macleod had their faults and made their mistakes, but given their sheer ability and essential good judgement, their reaction - by party misjudgement, intrigue or lack of talent for getting, but not doing, the job - robbed us of the best men of their time. Edward Pearce gives a sympathetic account of three fascinating lives. He also looks for the reasons why an obvious high talent is so often rejected for the supreme job. Too rough in Denis Healey's case? Not rough enough in Butler's? Offending the prejudices of the party as Iain Macleod did? Too busy working to plot properly? Too left- wing, not left-wing enough? Too clever by half - or, too clever?
Author : Barry K Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988657257
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Sir Mackenzie Bowell written by Barry K Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Sir Mackenzie Bowell, late 19th century Canadian prime minister who has been neglected by modern historians.
Author : John Jeremiah Sullivan
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 : 9780224098144
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Prime Minister of Paradise written by John Jeremiah Sullivan and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a student working in the dusty archives of the Sewanee Review, John Jeremiah Sullivan came across an article entitled âe~Lost Utopia of the American Frontierâe(tm) and was immediately hooked on the dramatic story of a lost book, an alternative history of the South, a white Indian. It was a story heâe(tm)d chase for the next two decades. In 1735, a charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist named Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina. In the Cherokee village of Grand Tellico, he created a Utopian society that he named Paradise. For six years, Paradise was governed by a set of revolutionary ideas that included racial equality, sexual freedom, and a lack of private property, ideas which he chronicled in a mysterious manuscript he called Paradise. Priberâe(tm)s ideas were so subversive that he was hunted for half a decade and eventually captured by the British âe" making headlines across the world âe" and imprisoned until his death. The only copy of Paradise was apparently destroyed. Now, in a rare combination of ground-breaking research and stunning narrative skill, award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan brings that lost history vividly to life.
Author : Steve Richards
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1838952438
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Prime Ministers We Never Had written by Steve Richards and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become prime minister if it were not for his brother Ed? Would Ed have become prime minister if it were not for David? How close did Jeremy Corbyn come to being prime minister? In this piercing and original study, journalist and commentator Steve Richards looks at eleven prime ministers we never had, examining what made each of these illustrious figures unique and why they failed to make the final leap to the very top. Combining astute insights into the demands of leadership with compelling historical analysis, this fascinating exploration of failure and success sheds new light on some of the most compelling characters in British public life.
Author : Kevin Hickson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785902717
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book John Major: An Unsuccessful Prime Minister? written by Kevin Hickson and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year marks the twentieth anniversary of one of the most momentous general elections this country has ever seen. John Major's defeat in 1997 ended a record eighteen years of Tory government, prompting accusations of failure and ignominy. A controversial leader, Major oversaw numerous crises in international and domestic policy. Between 1990 and 1997, he presided over Britain's participations in the Gulf War, the start of the Northern Ireland peace process, the Maastricht Treaty negotiations and, famously, Black Wednesday and Britain's exit from the ERM. Towards the end, Major's government was split over Europe and ridden with allegations of sleaze. Widely criticised by the media and politicians from all parties, Major went on to be crushed by Tony Blair and New Labour in the 1997 general election. An Unsuccessful Prime Minister? is the first wide-ranging appraisal of John Major's government in nearly two decades. This book reconsiders the role of John Major as Prime Minister and the policy achievements of his government. Major's government faced many more constraints and left behind a more enduring legacy than his critics allowed at the time or since.
Author : Rodney Brazier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019260306X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Choosing a Prime Minister written by Rodney Brazier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the door closes on one prime minister's rule, what happens next? General elections are only one possible way to enter 10 Downing Street. Using all relevant constitutional conventions, precedents, non-legal codes, historical events, and laws, this title offers a comprehensive account of all the circumstances in which the premiership is attained and lost. Over seven chapters, this book follows the sequence of events starting with how a prime minister can lose office, continues on to examine the procedures that then have to be followed, and considers at length the ways in which a politician can become leader of the country. Also explored are the possible emergencies, such as the sudden serious illness or even death of a prime minister, and their constitutional responses. This book concludes by looking at whether the procedures discussed could be set out in an authoritative and user-friendly code, and a sample one is suggested. Covering historical examples and modern turmoil, this book in an essential guide for understanding the rules and processes involved in choosing a prime minister.
Author : J.D.M. Stewart
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459738497
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Being Prime Minister written by J.D.M. Stewart and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Prime Minister sheds light on the lives of prime ministers as ordinary people, examining them through a variety of experiences most Canadians share.
Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009429779
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Impossible Office? written by Anthony Seldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 years, fifty-seven individuals have held the office of British Prime Minister - who have been the best and worst?
Author : Patrick Moray Weller
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868408743
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006 written by Patrick Moray Weller and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive study of the development of the central institution of Australian government over the first century of its life.
Author : Martin Connolly
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781526751478
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Murder of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval written by Martin Connolly and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England entered the nineteenth century having lost the American states and was at war with France. The slave trade had been halted and the country was in torment, with industrialisation throwing men and women out of work as poverty haunted their lives. As the merchants of England and America saw their businesses stagnate and profits plummet, everyone blamed the government and its policies. Those in charge were alarmed and businessmen, who were believed to be exploiting the poor, were murdered. Assassination indeed stalked the streets. The man at the centre of the storm was Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. From the higher reaches of society to the beggar looking for bread, many wanted him dead, due to policies brought about by his inflexible religious convictions and his belief that he was appointed by God. In May 1812 he entered the Lobby of the Houses of Parliament when a man stepped forward and fired a pistol at him. The lead ball entered into his heart. Within minutes he was dead. Using freshly-discovered archive material, this book explores the assassin's thoughts and actions through his own writings. Using his background in psychology, the author explores the question of the killer's sanity and the fairness of his subsequent trial. Within its pages the reader will find an account of the murder of Spencer Perceval and a well-developed portrait of his assassin.
