Harold Macmillan, 1894-1956 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alistair Horne
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1894-1956
- Setting: Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Harold Macmillan, Dorothy Macmillan, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: World War II, Politicians, Publishing or publishers, Catholics or Catholic Church, Great Britain, Economic policy, Prime ministers
- Locales: Great Britain
Harold Macmillan was born into an important publishing family, his grandfather having founded the book-publishing firm, Macmillan, fifty-one years before Harold was born in 1894. Following his marriage in 1920, Harold Macmillan became a junior partner in the family publishing house and, like his father, seemed destined to make this his life’s vocation. In the 1920’s he had editorial responsibilities for some of the firm’s most prominent authors: Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and William Butler Yeats, among others. Macmillan was especially interested in contemporary economists,...
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