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The founder of the Social Democratic Party of the U.K. profiles Harry S. Truman, with particular emphasis upon his political astuteness and solid accomplishments in international affairs, which succeeded despite the instability of the postwar world
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Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Jenkins (1920- 2003) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death, a position he held until his death. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.
A co-founder of Great Britain's centrist Social Democratic party, and biographer of several British political leaders, Jenkins shows with this concise life of Harry Truman that he knows about American politics as well. He has written an admiring, while not uncritical, study, with emphasis upon Truman's public career. Based upon a handful of well-known sources, the book offers little that is new in the way of research or interpretation. What it does offer is an exceptionally fine, entertaining writing style and a British viewpoint on events, such as Jenkins's underlining of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's role in the success of the Marshall Plan. Too slight to interest scholars, Truman is an optional choice for public and undergraduate libraries. Robert F. Nardini, M.L.S., Concord, N . H .
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