Lloyd George and Churchill: How Friendship Changed History - Hardcover

Rintala, Marvin

9781568330310: Lloyd George and Churchill: How Friendship Changed History

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ISBN 10: 1568330316 ISBN 13: 9781568330310

Publisher: Madison Books, 1990

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Rintala makes a unique case for the role that friendship plays in politics.

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Marvin Rintala is Professor of Political Science at Boston College.

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Rintala examines the personal nature and the historical impact of the deep and abiding friendship that existed between political rivals David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Though Lloyd George, distinguished leader of the British Liberal Party and prime minister during World War I, and Churchill, a staunch Conservative and prime minister during World War II, often disagreed on matters of philosophy and policy, they remained devoted friends and often influenced each other's views and positions. Rintala argues that "the personal relationship of Lloyd George and Churchill may have had more significant political consequences than any other personal relationship in the British experience." Bolstering this seemingly inflated claim, he cites as evidence the fact that both Lloyd George and Churchill were instrumental in abolishing the power of the House of Lords in 1911; worked in concert in order to guarantee immediate British participation in the rapidly widening European conflict in 1914; and Lloyd George successfully championed Churchill's succession to the prime ministership in 1940. Though Rintala tends to get a bit carried away with his specific theory, he does offer some relevant insight into a complex social and historical subject. Recommended for larger political science and British history collections. Margaret Flanagan

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