Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham)

Impossible Office? (eBook, PDF)

The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009429788
• Artikelnr.: 70909983

Autorenporträt

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 (1981) was published forty years ago, and since then he has written or edited many books, including the definitive insider accounts of the last five Prime Ministers. He is the honorary historian at Number 10 Downing Street, chair of the National Archive Trust, and has interviewed virtually all those who have worked in Number 10 in the last 50 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Bookend Prime Ministers: Walpole and Johnson
2. A Country Transformed, 1721-2021
3. The Liminal Premiership: From the Saxons to 1806
4. The Transformational Prime Ministers, 1806-2021
5. The Powers of the Prime Minister, 1721-2021
6. The Constraints on the Prime Minister, 1721-2021
7. The Falling Power of the Monarchy, 1660-2021
8. The Rise and Fall of the Foreign Secretary, 1782-2021
9. The Rise, and Rise of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1660-2021
10. The Impossible Office: The Prime Minister by 2021.