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MACMILLAN 1957-1986: VOLUME II OF THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY

by Alistair Horne

Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st. 1989

Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. A masterly account of Harold Macmillan's Prime Ministership (1957 - 63) and emergence as one of the most influential international statesmen of the 20th century. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvii and 741 pages including index.

Boards are clean. Text block a little grubby to lower edge and a little foxing to top edge. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and last few pages. Pictorial dustwrapper is heavily foxed to flaps and a little scuffed.

ISBN: 0333496213
Stock no. 1830995

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Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1 'It's Macmillan', January - March 1957
  • 2 Mending the Fences, March - December 1957
  • 3 'Little Local Difficulties', 1957 - 1958
  • 4 1958: The Year of International Crisis
  • 5 No Mr Chamberlain, 1958 - 1959
  • 6 Electoral Triumph, 1958 - 1959
  • 7 Winds of Change, 1959 - 1960
  • 8 Eruption at the Summit, 1959 - 1960
  • 9 'Stagflation': The English Disease, 1960 - end of 1961
  • 10 'A Very Special Relationship', 1960 - 1961
  • 11 Facing Up to Khrushchev and De Gaulle, October 1961 - October 1962
  • 12 Night of Long Knives, July 1962
  • 13 'A Trial of Wills': Cuba, October - November 1962
  • 14 The Continuing Burdens of Empire, 1961 - 1963
  • 15 Skybolt Falls and De Gaulle Says No, May 1962 - January 1963
  • 16 'Everybody's Darling, Anyway', January - June 1963
  • 17 A Last Triumph, June - September 1963
  • 18 'The Hand of Fate', September - October 1963
  • 19 'Life After Death', 1963 - 1979
  • 20 'Le Style, C'est L'Homme', 1979 - 1986
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • Picture Acknowledgements

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