ISBN: 9780349117348 - friends and rivals: crosland, jenkins and healey (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Trade pbk.; some underscoring and marginalia; cover and spine, as new.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In the 1976 Labour Party leadership election following Harold Wilson's surprise resignation as Prime Minister, the then Foreign Secretary Jim Callaghan was Wilson's favourite to succeed him. The main candidate of the Left was Michael Foot. The three most prominent standard bearers of the modernising tendency inside the Party were Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland. All three had been exact contemporaries at Oxford University and each had more in common than separated them. Yet they could not get together and sort things out between them - and Callaghan won. Giles Radice's elegantly written comparative biography of a group is an analysis of how the combined overall achievement of the three amounts to less than it might have been - how friendship and mutual rivalry, despite individual eminence and brilliance, are corrosive and damaging forces. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 384 pages. cover worn In the 1976 Labour Party leadership election following Harold Wilson's surpri se resignation as Prime Minister, the then Foreign Secretary Jim Callaghan was W ilson's favourite to succeed him. The main candidate of the Left was Michael Foo t. The three most prominent standard bearers of the modernizing tendency inside the Party were Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland. All three had been e xact contemporaries at Oxford University and each had more in common than separa ted them. Yet they could not get together and sort things out between them - and Callaghan won. Giles Radice's comparative biography of this group is an analysi s of how the combined overall achievement of the three amounts to less than it m ight have been - how friendship and mutual rivalry, despite individual eminence and brilliance, are corrosive and damaging forces.…