The Cancelled Prime Minister The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald | 9.75 MB
Title: The Cancelled Prime Minister The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald
Author: Walter Reid
Category: Historical British Biographies, History of United Kingdom, Great Britain History
Language: English | 392 Pages | ISBN: 9781805266136
Description:
Ramsay MacDonald was born an illegitimate child in north-east Scotland. Leaving school at fourteen, he seemed bound to follow in his ploughman father’s footsteps. Instead, he would become the UK’s first Labour Prime Minister-a friend of George V and a global political star. How did he get there from his Highland bothy? Why has he been erased from political memory? And how did this leftist parliamentarian end up leading a Conservative-dominated National Government?
MacDonald’s was an elusive, Celtic personality, easier to criticise than to understand. Historian Walter Reid demystifies this fascinating politician, dismissing the common charge of treacherous ambition and tracing MacDonald’s personal odyssey-including half a life grieving his wife Margaret, a remarkable feminist and social reformer lost young to blood poisoning.
History has been unkind to MacDonald, and most often written with politically hostile pens. Drawing extensively on his private…
Ramsay MacDonald was born an illegitimate child in north-east Scotland. Leaving school at fourteen, he seemed bound to follow in his ploughman father’s footsteps. Instead, he would become the UK’s first Labour Prime Minister-a friend of George V and a global political star. How did he get there from his Highland bothy? Why has he been erased from political memory? And how did this leftist parliamentarian end up leading a Conservative-dominated National Government?
MacDonald’s was an elusive, Celtic personality, easier to criticise than to understand. Historian Walter Reid demystifies this fascinating politician, dismissing the common charge of treacherous ambition and tracing MacDonald’s personal odyssey-including half a life grieving his wife Margaret, a remarkable feminist and social reformer lost young to blood poisoning.
History has been unkind to MacDonald, and most often written with politically hostile pens. Drawing extensively on his private…
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