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| Author | : Andrew Adonis |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780199274871 |
Roy Jenkins was a dominating figure in British politics across the four decades before his death in 2003, with an impact and legacy greater than many prime ministers of the period. These essays, by friends and associates of Roy Jenkins from every phase of his life, chart his remarkable career with insight, anecdote, and empathy. Each contributor writes from a close and unique relationship with their subject.
| Author | : Roy Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Politico's Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9781842751770 |
In an engaging memoir, one of Britain's most esteemed leaders brings to life the people and events of his time. Offering priceless portraits of Wilson, Thatcher, Nixon, the Kennedys, and the Rockefellers, and others, Jenkins presents an entertaining autobiography, sure to be must reading for history buffs and followers of world politics.
| Author | : John Campbell |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 834 |
| Release | : 2014-03-27 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1448192447 |
Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography Award Longlisted for the 2015 Orwell Prize Winner of the 2014 Political Book Awards Political Biography of the Year Roy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister Britain never had. But though he never reached 10 Downing Street, he left a more enduring mark on British society than most of those who did. As a radical Home Secretary in the 1960s he drove through the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. An early and consistent advocate of European unity, he played a decisive role in achieving British membership first of the Common Market and then of the European Union. Then in 1981, when both the Conservative and Labour parties had moved sharply to the right and left respectively he founded the centrist Social Democratic Party (SDP) which ultimately paved the way for Tony Blair’s creation of New Labour. On top of all this, Jenkins was a compulsive writer whose twenty-three books included best-selling biographies of Asquith, Gladstone and Churchill. He was the embodiment of the liberal establishment with a genius for friendship who knew and cultivated everyone who mattered in the overlapping worlds of politics, literature, diplomacy and academia. His biography is the story of an exceptionally well-filled and well-rounded life.
| Author | : N. Piers Ludlow |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2016-04-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137515309 |
Roy Jenkins brought great talent to Europe’s top job. He played a key role in re-launching European monetary integration, winning the right to attend the new global summits, and smoothing Greece’s path to EC membership. But he fell short of other targets. Commission reform remained elusive, as did an improvement of the UK’s troubled relationship with the EC. Indeed the row over Britain’s contribution to the EC budget, meant that Britain’s position in Europe was as difficult when he left Brussels as it had been when he arrived. This study will look at how Jenkins approached his role, identifying his priorities, examining his working methods, and exploring his rapport with the European and international statesmen with whom he had to work. In the process, the book will shed light on the nature of the job, on Jenkins’ own talents and limitations, and on the European Community as it struggled with the global economic crisis of the 1970s.
| Author | : Roy Jenkins |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002-11-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0812966414 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback. William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer’s art.
| Author | : Roy Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2003-11-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0805069593 |
In acute, stylish prose, Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and intricacies of FDRUs character--a masterly work by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Churchill" and "Gladstone."
| Author | : Roy Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 1068 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780330488051 |
Roy Jenkins' Churchill is an exhaustive biographical picture of the man who oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen, from the Admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize.
| Author | : Roy Jenkins |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2011-09-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1448201810 |
Sir Charles Dilke was born in 1843 and died in 1911. His career is one of the mysteries and tragedies of nineteenth-century history. In the summer of 1885 he was the youngest man in the outgoing cabinet and Gladstone's most likely successor as leader of the Liberal Party. But his great expectations were shattered when in July 1885 Donald Crawford, a Liberal candidate, began divorce proceedings against his twenty-two-year-old wife, citing Dilke as co-respondent. There were two hearings, during the second of which Mrs Crawford made the most sensational allegations and in the end Dilke lost. He maintained his innocence to his dying day and despite his public disgrace there were many who believed him. First published in 1958, Dilke is a story with a climax as exciting as it is mysterious and which bears continuing relevance to the private lives of public figures.
| Author | : Roy Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780330493338 |
Roy Jenkins follows up Churchill with a book of a very different shape; short and semi-autobiographical, but also full of the wit and erudition which make that book such a success. Each of the twelve cities are described with a mixture of architectural interest, topographical insight, and personal anecdote. Jenkins has three British cities: Cardiff, which was the metropolis of his Monmouthshire childhood, Birmingham which he represented in Parliament for 27 years, and Glasgow, which aroused in him an enthusiasm far transcending politics. Further afield there is Paris, Brussels, where he lived for four years as President of the European Commission; Bonn, and Berlin, surveyed from its pre-war splendour, through to its architectural resurgence of the 1990s, Naples and Barcelona. From Lord Jenkins's over a hundred visits to North America there emerge highly personal recollections of New York and a more objective view of the of Chicago. Dublin, so near to home and yet so distant, makes up the dozen. Twelve Cities is a fascinating and sparkling collection from one of our very finest writers
| Author | : Roy Jenkins |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 1163 |
| Release | : 2011-09-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1448201977 |
First published in 1989, this diary provides the background to two vital issues: our relations with the European Community and the state of politics in Britain. Few people are better qualified to know how we arrived where we are than Roy Jenkins. During the period of this diary he was President of the European Commission. The diary provides a picture of the day-to-day life of the head of an international organization, of the conflicting pressures and grinding routine, of the importance of personal relationships with world leaders such as Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt, Jean Monnet and Jimmy Carter. In addition to the political chronicle we have frank and sometimes unguarded revelations about the author, his tastes and preoccupations, from which emerges a man more imbued with public passion, more eccentric and with a more varied private life than many readers may expect. His subtle perception of people is revealed in brilliant portraits of, for example, Schmidt, pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet and yet notably constructive, and Giscard d'Estaing, highly intelligent but with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous. For those concerned with the way the world is developing and the impact of a civilized and essentially private personality on public events, European Diary is compulsory reading.
