Gordon Brown - Hardcover

Bower, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 000717540X ISBN 13: 9780007175406

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2004

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The gripping inside story of the complex and ambitious Chancellor of the Exchequer’s time in power.

Gordon Brown’s arrival at the Treasury in May 1997 was greeted by a stampede–officials of every rank spontaneously rushed to the door to cheer the new incumbent, excited about the change. As Master of the New Era, Brown created a matrix of relationships across every Whitehall department, and extended his influence to every aspect of government activity. He has been behind the most important budgetary decisions of the past decade: the commitment to Private Finance Initiative, which would affect infrastructure from the London Underground to the NHS to state schools; the management of the Inland Revenue; the increase in taxes; and the demise of Britain's pension funds.

In this gripping and fully updated biography, reissued to coincide with Brown’s assumption of Tony Blair’s mantle, best-selling author Tom Bower documents the rise to power of a driven and complex politician, and exposes how the ambitions of the Labour Party’s leader-in-waiting will affect the country for decades to come.

Biografía del autor:

Tom Bower has a distinguished reputation as an investigative historian, broadcaster and journalist and is the author of several ground-breaking books about tycoons. His most recent works are ‘Conrad and Lady Black’, ‘The Squeeze’ and his biographies of Simon Cowell and Bernie Ecclestone. Among his other much-debated biographies are those of Mohammed Fayed, Richard Branson and Robert Maxwell.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 000717540X
• ISBN 13: 9780007175406
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512