FRIENDS & RIVALS: CROSLAND, JENKINS, AND HEALEY

RADICE, Giles.

ISBN 10: 0316855472 / ISBN 13: 9780316855471

Published by Little, Brown, London,, 2002

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo.pp.376. ISBN:0316855472. Politics. Biography:"Together at Oxford in the late 1930s, Crosland,Jenkins, and Healey were members of the most political generation in Oxford's history." Fourteen pages of b/w photographs illustrate the text. Original publisher's cloth / card /paper binding in black with clear gilt lettering at spine. Dust jacket design in white with black lettering and b/w photographs of the three politicians. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket feintly creased.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FRIENDS & RIVALS: CROSLAND, JENKINS, AND HEALEY
• Publisher: Little, Brown, London,
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316855472
• ISBN 13: 9780316855471
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Politics

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Synopsis

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 modernizing 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 comparative biography of this 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.

About the Author

The Rt Hon Lord Radice was Labour MP for Durham North until he was made a Life Peer in 2000. He has been Chairman of the European Movement since 1995.