(book reviews)

Canadian Journal of History;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...When told that Clement Attlee was a modest man, Winston...said to have remarked that Attlee had much to be modest about...Thatcherites have blamed the Attlee administrations for ushering...commitment to socialism of Attlee's governments. As for Attlee himself, even contemporary...a ...

Swift, John: Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in...

History: Review of New Books;  March 22, 2002 ;     321 words ...Swift, John Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition...to examine the career of Clement Attlee and the history of the British...1930s. John Swift argues that Attlee provided more effective leadership...Swift also claims that during Attlee's tenure the Labor ...

Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition,...

Albion;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...John Swift. Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the a Labour Party in Opposition...60.00. ISBN 0-333-80087-7. Both Clement Attlee and the Labour party emerged during...writes a political biography of Attlee in the 193 Os. As such, this is...

Attlee and Truman: Jerry Brookshire shows that the 'special relationship'...

History Today;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......replace those heroic leaders? Clement Attlee and Harry Truman? Succeed...stature? It was unlikely. Yet Attlee and Truman now rank high in...country's pantheon of statesmen. Attlee and Truman were never close...Clinton, and now Blair and Bush. Attlee and Truman, however, met only...

Attlee. (assessment of former UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee of the...

History Review;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......party's leaders, Tony Blair and Clement Attlee. Two more dissimilar characters...Labour had won in spite of Attlee. Blair is said to have a presidential style of rule, whereas Attlee seemed to have no style at...Contemporaries delighted in criticising Attlee and in making jokes at his...

Clement Attlee; the man who built the welfare state.

The Economist (US);  November 11, 1989 ;     700+ words ...CLEMENT ATTLEE CLEMENT ATTLEE was smaller than life. Physically unimpressive, he had all the charisma...as interesting as a minor change in a regional railway timetable. Attlee was chosen to succeed the pacifist George Lansbury as Labour leader...

Blair: The Verdict; AS HE BECOMES THE LONGEST-SERVING LABOUR PRIME...

The Mirror (London, England);  August 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ......for a single stint at No10 set by Clement Attlee between 1945 and 1951. The Attlee Government set up the National Health...compares the achievements of both men. CLEMENT ATTLEE FULL NAME: Clement Richard Attlee. BORN: 3 Jan 1883, Putney, London...

Eight words that spelled out victory.(News)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  August 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ...It fell to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of less...our enemies is laid low . Attlee was not a man of soaring...described them as bloodless . Attlee himself once admitted that...12.50 late at night. Mr Attlee has spoken on the 12 o'clock...

Half a century ago Attlee slumped at the polls (but HIS legacy lingers...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 6, 2005 ;     508 words ......that has struck New Labour was Clement Attlee's Labour Government in 1950...demolished the party's appeal. But Attlee - Churchill's deputy PM in...society. The reasons for Mr Attlee's disaster were slightly different...in history. By contrast Mr Attlee actually won more votes than...

Why Attlee was our best Prime Minister; Margaret Thatcher and Clement...

The Birmingham Post (England);  August 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Alun Thorne Clement Attlee wasn't always a socialist...of many stories recanted by Attlee about his 14 years at Haileybury...prosecution of World War Two. Both Attlee and Thatcher ranked the highest...that swept Britain thanks to Attlee's first post-war Government...

Review: Tom and Clem Aldwych Theatre, London

The Independent - London;  April 16, 1997 ;     586 words ......agnostic?" Tom Driberg asks Clement Attlee in Tom and Clem. "Haven't made my mind up yet," replies Attlee, quite unconscious of the joke...imagines an encounter between Attlee, the freshly elected Labour...expected that when Alec McCowen's Attlee first enters the proceedings...

Sorry Tony, there's only one Clement Attlee.(Business)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  August 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ......is the day Mr Blair breaks Clement Attlee's record for the longest continuous...claim to greatness. The 1945-51 Attlee administration founded the...managed the economy better than Attlee did - but then again Attlee was presiding over an economy...

Attlee and Driberg, the good and bad sides of the Old Labour coin

The Spectator;  April 26, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Tom and Clem, the fashionable play about Attlee and Driberg is an elegy for Old Labour...Old Labour failed. The notion that Clem Attlee ran a 'great' government is absurd. It...thereafter it was downhill all the way. Attlee was a good man and he knew how to run...

Attlee hero for Labour.(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  September 23, 2008 ;     50 words ...CLEMENT ATTLEE has been voted Labour's greatest hero in a survey of the party's MPs. The ex-prime minister oversaw the foundation of the NHS and the Welfare State. Aneurin Bevan, a health minister in Attlee's government and credited with setting up the NHS, was second. Third was Keir Hardie, founder of the ...

Socialized medicine still a bad idea

Daily Breeze;  September 19, 2007 ;     631 words ......Great Britain was a mess. Clement Attlee, the clever lawyer-intellectual...socialist enterprise, the monies Attlee demanded to finance his programs were modest. Everything about Attlee was modest - "a modest man...about," Churchill said of him. Attlee's parsimonious habits cling...