A Different Kind Of Weather: A Memoir - Hardcover

Waldegrave, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472119754 ISBN 13: 9781472119759

Verlag: Constable, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

`Why did you go into politics in the first place?' A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, Lord Waldegrave's is a life lived through politics. The youngest of seven children, and the son of an earl, Waldegrave's quintessentially English upbringing would go on to shape the course of his life, instilling in him a sense of independence and self-discipline needed to steel one for a successful career in government. Formative years spent at Eton, Oxford and Harvard fortified his resolve to enter the political establishment, and by the early seventies he finally achieved his greatest ambition., As an fearless young Conservative politician in the seventies and eighties, one who witnessed the fall of Heath and the triumph and eventual decline of Thatcher, Waldegrave was firmly at the heart of one of the most exciting and tumultuous periods of modern British history. However just as his star was in the ascent, Waldegrave became embroiled in a scandal which tarnished his reputation, but could not dampen his voracious enthusiasm for the political game. An unembroidered account of the narcotic effect of politics from one of the most fiercely intellectual governmental figures of the modern age, A Different Kind of Weather is a beautifully weighted memoir of political success and failure, and the passing of an era.

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Críticas:

Absorbing ... engrossing ... elegantly written (Daily Mail)

An eloquent and honest, not to say occasionally very funny, portrait of a life and an England that won't be seen again ... Waldegrave is at his best when he takes a sideways look at his own ambition and his belief (The Times)

Contraportada:

This book is an attempt to explain how things felt, to describe the weather of a life . . .

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Constable
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1472119754
• ISBN 13: 9781472119759
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320