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Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics

Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics


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Is a charismatic leader also an effective one? What role do commentators and historians have in shaping politicians' personae? Making Reputations provides a major new assessment of the role of individuals in British politics. The authors examine the personalities and rhetoric of key figures, such as Gladstone, Churchill, Thatcher and Blair, as well as shedding new light on other neglected but significant individuals. Drawing on a variety of methods from gender to cultural history, the book presents a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the individual and the pursuit, maintenance and execution of power.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations – vii Contributors – viii Introduction. Richard Toye and Julie Gottlieb – 1 Constructing Life Stories. Peter Marsh – 5 Gladstonian Liberalism and the rehabilitation of Robert Lowe, 1866-1868. Kristin Zimmerman – 15 ‘Squiff’, ‘Lliar George’, and ‘The McKennae’: The unpersuasive politics of personality in the Asquith coalition, 1915-16. Martin Farr – 29 Charismatic leadership, c. 1870-1914: A comparative European Perspective. Henk te Velde – 42 An exemplary communist life? Harry Pollitt’s Serving My Time in comparative perspective. Kevin Morgan – 56 A Mosleyite Life Stranger than Fiction: The Making and Remaking of Olive Hawks. Julie Gottlieb – 70 Winston Churchill and the ‘Men of Destiny’: Leadership and the role of the Prime Minister in wartime feature films. Jo Fox – 92 ‘Let us go forward together’: Clementine Churchill and the role of the personality in wartime Britain. Helen Jones – 109 The trials of a biography: Roy Harrod’s Life of John Maynard Keynes reconsidered. Richard Toye – 123 ‘Our Amazonian Colleague’: Edith Summerskill’s problematic reputation. Penny Summerfield – 135 Michael Foot as Labour leader: the uses of the past. Paul Corthorn – 151 ‘I don’t think of myself as the first woman Prime Minister’: Gender, Identity and Image in Margaret Thatcher’s Career. Anneke Ribberink – 166 New Labour and The Sun, 1994-97. Sam Gallagher – 180 Notes – 198 Index – 234

About the Author :
Julie Gottlieb is Lecturer in History at University of Sheffield. She is author of 'Feminine Fascism' and co-author, with Thomas P. Linehan, of 'The Culture of Fascism' (both I.B. Tauris). Richard Toye is Lecturer in History at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

Review :
'The contributions are never less than absorbing...'Trevor Russell, Public Servant, 7th October 2005


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781850438410
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1850438412
  • Publisher Date: 24 Aug 2005
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics


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