Roy Jenkins by John Campbell
Winner of the 2014 Political Book Awards Political Biography of the Year Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography Award Longlisted for the 2015 Orwell Prize Roy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister Britain never had.
Magnificent.. A compelling account of a remarkable life * Observer *
Campbell is simply a master of the art... This book is effortlessly superior. -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
Marvellous... The highest praise I can give to John Campbell's biography is that Roy Jenkins would have been proud to have been its author. -- Alan Johnson * Guardian *
A riveting and vital contribution to an understanding of postwar British politics. -- Matthew Engel * Financial Times *
A wonderful, readable book. Jenkins himself would have been proud to have produced a masterpiece of this calibre. -- Leo McKinstry * Daily Express *
Campbell is simply a master of the art... This book is effortlessly superior. -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
Marvellous... The highest praise I can give to John Campbell's biography is that Roy Jenkins would have been proud to have been its author. -- Alan Johnson * Guardian *
A riveting and vital contribution to an understanding of postwar British politics. -- Matthew Engel * Financial Times *
A wonderful, readable book. Jenkins himself would have been proud to have produced a masterpiece of this calibre. -- Leo McKinstry * Daily Express *
John Campbell is the author of many biographies including one of Edward Heath, for which he won the 1994 NCR award, The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady and, most recently, Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown. He is married and lives in Kent.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224087506 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224087509 |
| Title | Roy Jenkins |
| Author | John Campbell |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 832 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK), Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2015 (UK), Short-listed for Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year 2015 (UK), Long-listed for Orwell Prize 2015 (UK) |
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