The impossible office? : The history of the British prime minister / Anthony Seldon, with Jonathan Meakin, Illias Thoms, and Tom Egerton

Meakin, Jonathan [VerfasserIn] ; Thoms, Illias [VerfasserIn] ; Egerton, Tom [VerfasserIn]

Englisch

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024

1 online resource (xvii, 549 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9781009429771

978-1-009-42974-0 ebook

978-1-009-42977-1 paperback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-009-42977-1 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1017/9781009429740

*Prime ministers -- History -- Great Britain ; Cabinet system -- History -- Great Britain ; Great Britain -- Politics and government

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 941.08

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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