Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

John Bew

4.46/5 (844 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the Empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age, but an emblem of it; and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the twentieth century.

Here, Bew pierces Attlee's reticence to examine the intellect and beliefs of Britain's greatest - and least appreciated - peacetime prime minister.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 668 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Quercus Publishing

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 178087989X

ISBN13:: 9781780879895

kindle Asin:: B013UV9E4S

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

John Bew

4.46/5 (844 ratings)

Read Download

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the Empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age, but an emblem of it; and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the twentieth century.

Here, Bew pierces Attlee's reticence to examine the intellect and beliefs of Britain's greatest - and least appreciated - peacetime prime minister.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 668 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Quercus Publishing

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 178087989X

ISBN13:: 9781780879895

kindle Asin:: B013UV9E4S

More Books

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

Keir Starmer: The Biography

Tom Baldwin

But What Can I Do?

Alastair Campbell

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

The Korean War

Max Hastings

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

Julian T. Jackson

The Prime Ministers: 55 Leaders, 55 Authors, 300 Years of History

Iain Dale

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav M. Zubok

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

Harald Jähner

The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age

Tom Fletcher