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By Brady, Frank1965., Yale University Press Call No: SC Bio B7479b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Yale studies in English Volume: v. 155
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-- Walking with destiny2018., Adult, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Call No: Bio C563r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present. During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'.
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2008., Random House Call No: Bio D511f Edition: Random House Trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana's public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling addiction, drinking, drug-taking, and rampant love affairs with the leading politicians of the day. With penetrating insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.--From publisher description.
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2019., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Bio C182f Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive electoral defeats. He became Prime Minister in 2010, forming Britain’s first coalition government in 70 years, at a moment of economic crisis, and went on to win the first outright Conservative majority for 23 years at the 2015 general election. In For the Record, he will explain how the governments he led transformed the UK economy while implementing a modern, compassionate agenda that included reforming education and welfare, legalizing gay marriage, honoring the UK’s commitment to overseas aid and spearheading environmental policies. He will shed light on the seminal world events of his premiership—the Arab Spring; the rise of ISIS; the invasion of Ukraine; the conflicts in Libya, Iraq and Syria—as well as events at home, from the Olympic Games in 2012 to the Scottish referendum. He will provide, for the first time, his perspective on the EU referendum and his views on the future of Britain’s place in the world following Brexit. Revealing the battles and achievements of his life and career in intimate and frank detail, For the Record will be an important assessment of the significant political events of the last decade, the nature of power and the role of leadership at a time of profound global change.
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By Holman, Bob2010., Lion Hudson Call No: SC 328 H747k Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2011., NWP Call No: SC Bio S641c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is the story of Robert Smiliie,MP and trailblazing trade unionist who was born into poverty in Belfast in 1857. He moved to Scotland when he was 15 to join his brother James and became a miner at 17 in Larkhall. This opened his eyes to the way miners were treated by the mine owners and he realised that strong unions and the creation of a political party to represent the working classes was desperately needed. He was secretary of the Larkhall Miners and helped form the Lanarkshire Miners' Association. He became friends with Keir Hardie and together they rose through the ranks of the Labour movement. In 1888 he was a founder of the Scottish Labour Party.
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2008., Penguin Canada Call No: Bio B386r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians
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2012., Collca Limited Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Few modern politicians have been as controversial or as divisive as Margaret Thatcher. The highly ambitious daughter of a grocer ended up in charge of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990 and became a worldwide phenomenon. She was the first female leader of the western world.Her premiership was a time of turbulent change. She transformed the economy by selling off public institutions and curbing inflation. She battled and defeated the trade union movement and brought low the seemingly invincible National Union of Mineworkers. She took the nation to war against Argentina over the Falkland Islands and won, more than living up to her nickname as 'The Iron Lady'. She became an international stateswoman and strode the world stage, playing a vital role in relations between America and the USSR at a most critical time.Despite all this she was forced out not by a public vote but by members of her very own party a betrayal she has never quite recovered from. Her fall was sudden and unexpected but her legacy still endures.She is the only Prime Minister to become an 'ism' and she has heavily influenced Tony Blair's New Labour and David Cameron's Conservatives. Mrs Thatcher's shadow still looms large over the country with Meryl Streep recently winning an Oscar for playing her in the film The Iron Lady. Love her or hate her, what is clear is that we'll never forget her. She has indelibly become an integral part of British history, culture and society.
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By Haines, Joe1988., Houghton Mifflin Call No: Bio M4657h Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
