Bew rightly makes much of Attlee’s hitherto-underexplored (indeed, almost unknown) inner life, especially his reading of the great English poets such as John Milton, William Blake, Percy Bysshe ...
John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while ...
Attlee turned in a stellar performance as Churchill’s wartime deputy. To begin with, he got along with Churchill, no mean feat. Many in the Labour Party felt that he was too deferential to the prime ...
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