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Article: A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century, by David Dutton. Houndmills, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii, 347 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paperback).
In this postmodernist age, reading a well-written work of mainstream party political history is a guilty pleasure. David Dutton's A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century is full of the traditional focuses of political history: leadership struggles, elections and by-elections, policy discussions, party manoeuvers, and discussions of the British political system. It is written with verve and unravels the narrative of the rise and fall and rise again of the ...