Sultan of Swing: The Life of David Butler - Hardcover

Crick, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785904388 ISBN 13: 9781785904387

Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2018

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Michael Crick, a true original, in brilliant pursuit of the life of David Butler, a true genius. --Jon Snow

David Butler had a wonderful ability to blend teaching with the utmost academic rigour, while really bringing politics to life. --David Cameron

Michael Crick's biography of David Butler, who is now 94, gives some fascinating and unexpected insights not just into our politics but into the way the British Establishment works. --Total Politics

The story of David Butler is the story of all the elections anyone can remember. And what a brilliant story it is as three-dimensional an account as any modern election graphic. Hats off to Michael Crick for showing us every facet of this national treasure. Beautifully written, with as much detail as a cut diamond, this book is pure joy. --Jeremy Vine

David Butler invented the modern study of elections. He was the greatest entrepreneur of the post-war era in political science, and a remarkable human being. From the opening tale of Butler's fateful meeting with Winston Churchill, Michael Crick writes of his life and work with brilliance, sympathy and insight. I could not put it down. --Andrew Adonis

Michael Crick s excellent book does justice to David Butler's remarkable life. Over more than seventy years, David has shown everyone from Winston Churchill to today's millennials not just how to analyse elections, but how to make sense of our democracy. --Peter Kellner

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Michael Crick tells the extraordinary story of the man who put the swing into British politics. Sir David Butler pioneered the science of elections, bringing the voting figures to life on national television. An Oxford boffin who has publicly analysed every British general election since the war, Butler has done more than anyone to transform TV coverage of British elections. As a twenty-year-old student in 1945, Butler was the first to turn election results into percentages, and hence a science. And seventy-two years later, the academic known as the 'father of psephology' was using Twitter to talk about the contest in 2017. Back in 1950, as an expert on the BBC's first TV election night, Butler promoted the idea of 'swing' to explain gains and losses to the British public. Later he invented the BBC's popular Swingometer, which is still used today, and helped make the BBC's results broadcast the `go-to' programme, combining authority, academic rigour and showmanship. Having first been summoned by Churchill for polling advice when he was only twenty-five, David Butler got to know most of Britain's senior post-war politicians, and has acted as a highly influential voice behind the scenes. He has written dozens of books and taught scores of leading figures in politics, the media and universities around the world, building a huge international reputation which regularly took him to America, Australia and India. Award-winning TV correspondent Michael Crick has known David Butler for forty years. Based on interviews with Butler himself, his friends, colleagues and family, and with access to many previously unseen papers, Crick chronicles the long and energetic life of the greatest analyst of British elections - a story which weaves its way through post-war history with surprises, colour and humour.

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• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785904388
• ISBN 13: 9781785904387
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400