1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814325203321

Autore

Attlee C. R (Clement Richard), <1883-1967.>

Titolo

Attlee's great contemporaries : the politics of character / / edited by Frank Field ; afterword by Peter Hennessy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-282-87382-2

9786612873829

1-4411-2944-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

320.092241

Soggetti

Statesmen - Great Britain - History - 20th centurty

Political leadership

Socialism

Great Britain Politics and government 1945-1964

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introductory essay: a social democrat in action; 1. Lansbury of London, Observer; 2. The King I Knew; 3. Truth About the War; 4. The Pleasure of Books; 5. Good Patriot and Bad Politician; 6. Keir Hardie; 7. England My England; 8. Blue Stocking in Action; 9. A Good Man; 10. Montgomery: My Assessment; 11. George Lansbury: Man of His Day; 12. Mr. Churchill's Eden; 13. The Role of the Monarchy; 14. The Hiroshima Choice; 15. An American 'Statesman of the Century'; 16. Uncle Fred Looks Back; 17. Jumping the Gun; 18. What Sort of Man Gets to the Top?; 19. Flaws at the Top

20. A Name for Loyalty21. A Man of Power; 22. An Unextinguished Flame; 23. Bevan as Hero; 24. Courageous Intellectual; 25. She Made Things Hum; 26. Toynbee Hall Looks to the Future; 27. In the Driver's Seat; 28. The Man I Knew; 29. Quite Possibly a Classic; 30. Mr. Macmillan's Early Political Life and Times; Epilogue: Professor Peter Hennessey; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1946, Clement Attlee came to power as Labour Prime Minister with a huge landslide majority. Under his leadership, some of the greatest



reforms were initiated, not least the founding of The National Health Service. Attlee had a firm vision of a more just and equitable society, which the nation wanted. This firm vision is something that attracts Frank Field. To Field, Attlee is a hero. After retirement, Clement Attlee wrote a masterly series of profiles of his great contemporaries, many published at the time in The Observer. These are now collected together in a book for the first time. They

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963491803321

Autore

Moon Elaine Latzman

Titolo

Untold tales, unsung heroes : an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967 / / Elaine Latzman Moon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8143-3849-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Collana

African American life series

Disciplina

977.4/3400496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century

African Americans - Michigan - Detroit

Detroit (Mich.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface              ""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Chronology: African Americans in Detroit to 1917 ""; ""African Americansin Detroit and the United States,1918-1927""; ""Oscar Lee                ""; ""Rosa Lee Kirkman Wheeler                               ""; ""James E. Cummings                        ""; ""Helen Nuttall Brown                          ""; ""Frank Angelo                   ""; ""Discussion on Employment Opportunities                                             ""

""Henry Biggs:""""Reginald R. Larrie:""; ""Paul B. Shirley                      ""; ""Charles C. Diggs, Jr.                            ""; ""Frederick N. Cureton                           ""; ""Ernest Goodman                     ""; ""Carl Winter                  ""; ""Alice E. M. Cain Newman                              ""; ""William Hines                    "";



""M. Kelly Fritz                     ""; ""Sidney Barthwell                       ""; ""Lillian Duplessis                        ""

""Discussion with Second Baptist Church Members                                                    """"Arthur Michael Carter III""; ""Nathaniel Leach""; ""Wilhelmina Lewis Means""; ""Katherine E. Reid""; ""Ernestine E. Wright""; ""Discussion on Education                              ""; ""William St. Clair Billups""; ""Earlie M. Poole""; ""Shelton Tappes                     ""; ""African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1928-1937""; ""Fred W. Guinyard                       ""; ""Ernestine E. Wright                          ""

""Dorothy Elizabeth Lawson                               """"Discussion with Shiloh Baptist Church Members                                                    ""; ""Mary Ruth Chapman Harris""; ""Marguerite Rhodes Mclntosh""; ""O. Davene Ross McKinney""; ""Dr. Mary O. Brookins Ross""; ""Discussion on the Labor Movement                                       ""; ""HildredJ. Drew Dale""; ""Gwendolyn Ruth Edwards""; ""Hodges E. Mason""; ""Stanley Nowak""; ""John J. ""Jack"" White""; ""Walter Rosser                    ""; ""Ruth Wills-Clemons                         ""

""Discussion on Green Pastures Camp                                        """"Eleanor Boykin Jones""; ""Ernest Timothy Marshall""; ""Cecil Whittaker McFadden""; ""James Boggs                  ""; ""Ernest C. Dillard, Sr.                             ""; ""Richard L. King                      ""; ""Margaret McCall Thomas Ward                                  ""; ""Edward Davis                   ""; ""Kermit G. Bailer                       ""; ""Norman McRae                   ""; ""Beatrice M. Buck                       ""; ""African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1938-1947""

""Marcena W. Taylor                        ""

Sommario/riassunto

More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.