Books
by Roy Jenkins
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Churchill |
It may seem superfluous to draw attention to a book which received all the hype Macmillan could give it last year, but this book is indeed outstanding and there are those who judge it to be better than the same author's 'Gladstone'. Though running to a massive 1000 pages the pace seldom flags and Jenkins' own experience of office is used helpfully yet with admirable restraint.
(Michael Fitzgerald-Lombard - bwl 12 January 2002) |
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The Chancellors |
Roy Jenkins has provided a fine set of essays on his predecessors as Chancellor of the Exchequer from Lord Randolph Churchill to Hugh Dalton which provide much reflection on British politics of the twentieth century. It is spoilt by poor editing with some long and unwieldy sentences. It also lacks a table of Prime Ministers and their Chancellors. Although it falls short of what it might have been, nonetheless this is a good read.
(Pamela Jaunin - bwl 4 July 2000) |
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