Portraits and Miniatures Roy Jenkins

Name: Portraits and Miniatures By Roy Jenkins
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Portraits and Miniatures by Roy Jenkins

In Portraits and Miniatures, Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intelligence and elegant prose to subjects ranging from literature and political history to wine and croquet. Long experience in both Houses of Parliament and as President of the European Commission has given him unparalleled insight into political figures such as R. A. Butler, Aneurin Bevan, Konrad Adenauer, and de Gaulle. A varied selection of essays, Portraits and Miniatures is fascinating, witty, and endlessly entertaining.

About Roy Jenkins

Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Jenkins (1920- 2003) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death, a position he held until his death. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.

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NLS9781448203215

ISBN 13

9781448203215

ISBN 10

144820321X

Title

Portraits and Miniatures by Roy Jenkins

Author

Roy Jenkins

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

2012-11-15

Number of pages

404

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