Baldwin by Roy Jenkins

Baldwin by Roy Jenkins

Stanley Baldwin was born in 1867, the son of a rich Worcestershire ironmaster and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He then worked in the family business for twenty years. He did not enter the House of Commons until he was forty, and was not even a junior minister until the threshold of fifty. Less than six years later he became Prime Minister and dominated British politics for the next 15 years - being elected to the highest office three times. In this reappraisal, Roy Jenkins discusses Baldwin's handling of the General Strike, 1927, and the Abdication, 1936, as well as the underlying issues of the period: the rise to power of organized Labour, and the first impact of Britain's industrial decline and the threat of dictators.

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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ISBN 13	9780333619964
ISBN 10	033361996X
Title	Baldwin
Author	Roy Jenkins
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	1995-01-13
Number of pages	208
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