Harold Wilson : The Winner Hardback
by Nick Thomas-Symonds
Hardback
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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions.
In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street.
Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's greatest ever election winner.
How did he do it - and at what cost?Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political calculator, even as a Soviet secret agent.
In this powerful new portrait, drawing on previously unavailable sources and first-hand parliamentary insight, acclaimed biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds reveals a more complex figure.
Wilson was a new kind of politician but, in his own way, this media-savvy harbinger of modernity was also a deeply traditional man, whose actions often suggest nothing less than a spiritual mission. In an intriguing paradox, Wilson, influenced by the distinctively democratic faith of his Yorkshire boyhood, united a fractured Labour Party, ushering in the cultural and social changes of the 'swinging sixties'.
His was the government to decriminalise homosexuality, legalise abortion and abolish capital punishment.
With a brilliant mind, sure-footed political moves and a feel for public opinion, he was a survivor who over and over again emerged from desperate crises - even, perhaps, conspiracies - to lead his party to victory.
It is time at last to learn his secrets.
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- Publication Date:01/09/2022
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:544 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:01/09/2022
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- ISBN:9781474611954
