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Bezig met laden... Baldwin (1987)door Roy Jenkins
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First published in 1984, this is the first biography of Stanley Baldwin for more than ten years, although there had been four in the preceding decade. This is strange, for Baldwin has recently begun to swim back into fashion. In part this is a function of growing nostalgia for his period of power, the 1920s and 1930s. Still more, however, it is " because Mrs Thatcher's brand of Conservative leadership has made him an object of contrasting interest in a way that Harold Macmillan's or Edward Heath's never did. When a new exponent of an alternative style temporarily achieves notice, it is now frequently suggested that he might be a new Baldwin. This reappraisal is therefore appropriately timed. It is written by a skilled political biographer, from a non-Conservative, although not personally unsympathetic, standpoint. Baldwin was born in 1867, the son of a rich Worcestershire ironmaster, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He then worked in the family business for twenty years. Although the most self-conscious countryman amongst British Prime Ministers of the past hundred years or more, he was not a country squire and never owned more than a few acres of land. He did not enter the House of Commons until he was forty, and was not even a junior minister until the threshold of fifty. Less than six years later, in 1923, he became Prime Minister and dominated British politics for the next fifteen years - the only man of this century to hold the highest office three times. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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As a former cabinet minister himself, Jenkins brings to his study of Baldwin the perspective of someone who served in high office. His writing style is informative and often entertaining, which is no mean feat considering his subject. But this book lacks the detail of Keith Middlemas and John Barnes's [b:Baldwin: A Biography|4654466|Baldwin A Biography|Keith Middlemas|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358625933s/4654466.jpg|4704813] and the insights of Philip Williamson's [b:Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values|8674819|Stanley Baldwin Conservative Leadership and National Values|Philip Williamson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348795237s/8674819.jpg|3541068], both of which offer a far better understanding of how Baldwin came to dominate politics in inter-war Britain. While Jenkins's book is effective as an introduction to Baldwin's life and career, anyone seeking an in-depth examination would make better use of their time turning to one of those other works instead. (