Harold Macmillan, 1957-1986 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alistair Horne
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1957-1986
- Setting: London, Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Richard A. Butler, Charles De Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lord Home, John F. Kennedy, Dorothy Macmillan, Harold Macmillan, Lord Salisbury
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Colonialism, Conservatism, Politicians, Publishing or publishers, Egypt or Egyptians, Great Britain, Economic policy, Prime ministers
- Locales: London, England
This is a second volume of Alistair Horne’s two-volume official biography of Harold Macmillan. It begins with Macmillan’s appointment as prime minister of Great Britain in January, 1957, and appropriately concentrates on this period in his life; eighteen of the twenty chapters are devoted to the years from 1957 to 1963, during which he served as prime minister. The author has made extensive use of Macmillan’s diaries and other unpublished papers, as well as of numerous interviews with his subject, and this material enables him to present a much more comprehensive portrait of...
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