Politics

Gordon Brown

Past, Present and Future
by Francis Beckett

What sort of a man is Gordon Brown? What kind of Prime Minister will he make? Can he stem the growing unpopularity of the Labour Party and win it a fourth term in office? This book, written in the first three months of the year in which Brown becomes Prime Minister, is both a biography and an assessment.

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Price: £8.99

C L R James

Cricket’s Philosopher King
by Dave Renton

Known as ‘The Cricketing Marxist’, Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901–89) was one of the leading black intellectuals of the 20th century, a Marxist theorist of the first rank, and also one of the finest writers on cricket, with his legendary book 'Beyond a Boundary'.

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Price: £13.50

Tito

Life&Times
by Neil Barnett

During his life Tito could manage the internal tensions of his multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-lingual country. But after his death in 1980 Yugoslavia’s institutions were revealed as rudderless and Lilliputian. The break-up of Yugoslavia, the country Tito, the Croat turned Yugoslav had created was inevitable. The demon that he had spent his life containing, ethnic rivalry, was released after his death. The five wars that followed - some of them yet to be fully resolved - were Tito's nightmare, but they were in many ways the result of his own myopic egomania.

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Lloyd George

The 20 Prime Ministers of the 20th Century
by Hugh Purcell

David Lloyd George (1863-1945, Earl Lloyd George 1945) Liberal politician, Prime Minister 1916-22.

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Campbell-Bannerman

The 20 Prime Ministers of the 20th Century
by Roy Hattersley

Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908, GCB 1895) Liberal politician, Prime Minister 1905-8. He was invited by Edward VII to form a government when Balfour resigned in December 1905. In the subsequent general election the Liberals won a large majority, but many of their measures passed in the Commons were defeated by the Conservative majority in the House of Lords - a continuing provocation which led to the Parliament Act of 1911, in which Campbell-Bannerman's successor, Herbert Asquith, clipped the wings of the upper chamber.

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