WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGWINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHYBook of the year The Times Sunday Times New Statesman Spectator Evening Standard& Outstanding We still live in the society that was shaped by Clement Attlee& Robert Harris Sunday Times& The best book in the field of British politics& Philip Collins The Times& Easily the best single-volume cradle-to-grave life of Clement Attlee yet written& Andrew Roberts Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain&s radical postwar government delivering the end of the Empire in India the foundation of the NHS & Britain&s place in NATO Called &a sheep in sheep&s clothing& his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill But as John Bew&s revelatory biography shows Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it; & his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the twentieth century Here Bew pierces Attlee&s reticence to examine the intellect & beliefs of Britain&s greatest
- & least appreciated
- peacetime prime minister This edition
Includes:: a new preface by the author in response to the 2017 general election