Supermac by D R Thorpe
He became Prime Minister after the Suez Crisis, and between 1957 and 1963 presided over Great Britain's transition from the age of austerity to that of affluence.
This is how DR. Thorpe tells the story, eloquently and elegantly, as he does everything in this exemplary biography, which complements if it does not entirely supplant Alistair Horne’s two-volume official Life; Horne is better on the military, Thorpe on the political and personal. At every juncture Thorpe presents the evidence in a scrupulous and equable style -- Ferdinand Mount * London Review of Books *
The best biography of a post-war British Prime Minister yet written. * Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at University of Oxford *
...meticulous and magisterial...as exciting as it is authoritative... * Mail on Sunday *
splendid and surely definitive biography...a superb biographical achievement...succinct, frank and insightful -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
DR Thorpe is not the first to wrestle [with Macmillan] but Thorpe's account is the most intensively researched and most intimate portrait of all. Supermac has found a Superbiographer -- Paul Addison * Literary Review *
The best biography of a post-war British Prime Minister yet written. * Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at University of Oxford *
...meticulous and magisterial...as exciting as it is authoritative... * Mail on Sunday *
splendid and surely definitive biography...a superb biographical achievement...succinct, frank and insightful -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
DR Thorpe is not the first to wrestle [with Macmillan] but Thorpe's account is the most intensively researched and most intimate portrait of all. Supermac has found a Superbiographer -- Paul Addison * Literary Review *
D.R. Thorpe's work on the constitutional history and politics of the 20th century has made him one of Britain's most respected historians. He has written biographies of Alec Douglas-Home, Anthony Eden, Selwyn Lloyd, Austen Chamberlain, Lord Curzon and Lord Butler. Thorpe is a senior member of Brasenose College, Oxford, and has been a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and of St Antony's College, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701177485 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701177489 |
| Title | Supermac |
| Author | D R Thorpe |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 896 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2011 |
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