Wild Men

Wild Men

AngličtinaMäkká väzba
Torrance David
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
EAN: 9781399411479
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A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

A century ago, a Labour government took power for the first time. Meet the "Wild Men" who led the way...

'Superb' -- New Statesman
'Fascinating' -- The Sunday Times.

In 1923, the passing of the Act which gave all men the vote opened the door for a radically different sort of government: men from working-class backgrounds who had never before occupied the corridors of power at Westminster. Who were these ‘wild men’? Ramsay MacDonald, their leader and Labour’s first Prime Minster, was the illegitimate son of a Scottish farm labourer; Arthur Henderson was a Scottish iron moulder; J. H. Thomas, a Welsh railwayman; John Wheatley, an Irish-born miner and publican; and William Adamson, a Fife coal miner.

The Wild Men - this new edition with a fully updated preface - tells the story of that first Labour administration – its unexpected birth, fraught existence, and controversial downfall – through the eyes of those who found themselves in the House of Commons, running the country for the people. Blending biography and history into a compelling narrative, David Torrance reassesses the UK’s first Labour government a century after it shook up a British establishment still reeling from the War – and how the establishment eventually fought back.

This is an extraordinary period in British political history which echoes down the years to our current politics and laid the foundations for the Britain of today.

EAN 9781399411479
ISBN 1399411470
Typ produktu Mäkká väzba
Vydavateľ Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dátum vydania 16. januára 2025
Stránky 352
Jazyk English
Rozmery 198 x 129
Krajina United Kingdom
Autori Torrance David
Ilustrácie 8 pages of black and white images
Edícia Revised ed