Clement Attlee
The Man Who Made Modern Britain
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Narrateur(s):
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Liam Gerrard
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Auteur(s):
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John Bew
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To most, Winston Churchill remains Great Britain's greatest prime minister. Yet while he presided over his country's finest hour, he was not its most consequential leader. In this definitive new biography, John Bew reveals how that designation belongs to Clement Attlee, Churchill's successor, who launched a new era of political, economic, and social reform that would forever change Great Britain.
Alternatively criticized for being "too socialist" or "not radical enough", Attlee's quiet tenacity was intrinsic to the success of his party and highly pertinent to British identity overall. Attlee initiated key advancements in international relations by supporting the development of both the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and by granting independence to India, Burma, and Ceylon. More controversially, he sanctioned the building of Britain's nuclear deterrent in response to the rise of the Soviet Union and the threat of atomic bombs.
Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain explores his tenure in the years after the war as he presided over a radical new government in an age of austerity and imperial decline. Bew mines contemporary memoirs, diaries, and press excerpts to present listeners with an illuminating and intimate look into Attlee's life and career.
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- 2024-05-04
Highly recommend
I recently completed Clement Attlee by the historian, John Bew. In this biography, Bew characterizes Attlee as the Prime Minister who created modern Britain with achievements like the National Health Service, National Insurance and other features of the modern welfare state in his hat.
Attlee is also credited with transitioning Britain from Empire to Commonwealth as he foresaw the end of colonialism and oversaw the independence of India, Pakistan Burma and Ceylon. Curiously, the author did not give sufficient attention to the burgeoning independence movements in Sub-Saharan Africa during Attlee’s Premiership (1945-51), or Britain’s African empire in general, except in terms of how Attlee anticipated it would contribute to the economic defence of the sterling following the post World War 2 depression.
Still, it makes good reading about events in Britain and world affairs from the perspective of a left-leaning leader. It also mellows heroic portrayals of Churchill, who has traditionally been presented as the Britain’s most consequential leader of the twentieth century. Best of all, it combines well-written prose and poetry to great effect, bringing depth and breadth to the story of a man about whom quite little is written, but whose impact remains to this day.
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