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Article: Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931-1983. (book reviews)
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- September 1, 1996
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* It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a political historian in possession of a good mind, has tended to study the Labour Party. Until now we have had precious few interesting or imaginative histories of modern and contemporary Conservatism in Britain, and have had to make do instead with conservative and Conservative versions of the story. While the labour movement -- from Attlee to the Zinoviev letter -- has been studied in minute detail, students of the Right have had to rely upon the likes of Lord Blake's The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill for their information. There have been exceptions, of course, but it is surprising that given the overwhelming ...