A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair [Hardcover]

During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Introduction Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury - The Man Who Stayed Too Long Arthur James Balfour - Bob's Your Uncle Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman - A Good, Honest Scotchman Herbert Henry Asquith - Not Quite in the Gladstone Mould David Lloyd George - A Dynamic Force Andrew Bonar Law - Tory Puritan Stanley Baldwin - A Man of the Most Utter Insignificance ? James Ramsay MacDonald - An 'Aristocrat' Among Plain Men? Neville Chamberlain - A Family Affair Winston Churchill - His Finest Hour Clement Attlee - Quiet Revolutionary Sir Anthony Eden - Self-Destruction of a Prince Charming Harold Macmillan - Idealist into Manipulator Sir Alec Douglas-Home - Right Man, Wrong Century? Harold Wilson - Master - or Victim - of the Short Term Edward Heath - Cheerleader for Europe James Callaghan - Labour's Conservative Margaret Thatcher - Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady John Major - Thatcherism with a Human Face Tony Blair - Governing Against his Party Appendix: Prime Ministers of the 20th Century Index

'Dick Leonard's insightful, fair-minded and marvellously readable study of the twenty British prime ministers of the twentieth century fills a glaring gap in the literature on modern British history and politics. It will be a 'must' for sixth-form and University reading lists; and no one interested in the role of the individual in politics should be without it.' - Professor David Marquand, former Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, and Biographer of Ramsay MacDonald

'A very great achievement.' - David Owen

'Immensely informative, beautifully written...both instructive and entertaining.' - Roy Hattersley

'An excellent book,' - Michael Heseltine

'A brilliantly balanced, and lasting, view.' - Clive Brlă•