Anthony Seldon: The Impossible Office?

Cover: 9781009429771 | The Impossible Office? | Anthony Seldon | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office in world history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10, explores the lives and careers, crises and scandals, and successes and failures of our great Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, up to the recent churn of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Seldon discusses which of our PMs have been most effective and why, as well as probing the changing relationship between the Monarchy and the Prime Minister in intimate detail. A celebration of the humanity, frailty, work and achievements of 57 remarkable individuals who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis and war.

Über den Autor

Sir Anthony Seldon is the acknowledged national authority on all matters to do with Number 10 and prime ministers. His first book on a prime minister, Churchill's Indian Summer: The Conservative Government, 1951-55 (1981), was published forty years ago, and since then he has written or edited many books, including the definitive insider accounts of the last six prime ministers. He has been the honorary historian at Number 10 Downing Street, chair of the National Archives Trust, and has interviewed virtually all senior figures who have worked in Number 10 in the last fifty years. His BBC Radio 4 series 'The Prime Minister at 300' was broadcast on the 300th anniversary of the office in April 2021.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Note on the revised edition; 1. The 300th Anniversary Bookend Prime Ministers: Walpole and Johnson; 2. A Country Transformed, 1721-2024; 3. The Liminal Premiership: From the Saxons to 1806; 4. The Transformational Prime Ministers, 1806-2024; 5. The Powers and Resources of the Prime Minister, 1721-2024; 6. The Constraints on the Prime Minister, 1721-2024; 7. The Eclipse of the Monarchy, 1660-2024; 8. The Rise and Fall of the Foreign Secretary, 1782-2024; 9. The Rise, and Rise, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1660-2024; 10. The Impossible Ofce? The Prime Minister by 2024.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009429771
ISBN-10:	1009429779
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Seldon, Anthony
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Anthony Seldon
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.03.2024
Gewicht:	0,596 kg