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UNINA9910814325203321 |
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Attlee C. R (Clement Richard), <1883-1967.> |
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Titolo |
Attlee's great contemporaries : the politics of character / / edited by Frank Field ; afterword by Peter Hennessy |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
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1-282-87382-2 |
9786612873829 |
1-4411-2944-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Statesmen - Great Britain - History - 20th centurty |
Political leadership |
Socialism |
Great Britain Politics and government 1945-1964 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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In 1946, Clement Attlee came to power as Labour Prime Minister with a huge landslide majority. Under his leadership, some of the greatest |
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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 |
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UNINA9910963491803321 |
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Autore |
Moon Elaine Latzman |
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Untold tales, unsung heroes : an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967 / / Elaine Latzman Moon |
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Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c1994 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (408 p.) |
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African American life series |
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African Americans - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century |
Civil rights movements - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Michigan - Detroit |
Detroit (Mich.) Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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""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 ""; |
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""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"" |
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More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life. |
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