Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion And The Individual In Modern British Politics - Richard Toye

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Résumé :
Is a charismatic leader also an effective one? What role do commentators and historians have in shaping politicians' personae? Making Reputations provides a major new assessment of the role of individuals in British politics. The authors examine the personalities and rhetoric of key figures, such as Gladstone, Churchill, Thatcher and Blair, as well as shedding new light on other neglected but significant individuals. Drawing on a variety of methods from gender to cultural history, the book presents a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the individual and the pursuit, maintenance and execution of power....

Biographie:
Professor Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. His books include Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (Macmillan 2007), Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2013), and (with David Thackeray) Age of Promises: Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain (OUP 2021). He has made numerous TV and radio appearances and has written for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement....

Sommaire:

List of Illustrations - vii
Contributors - viii
Introduction. Richard Toye and Julie Gottlieb - 1
Constructing Life Stories. Peter Marsh - 5
Gladstonian Liberalism and the rehabilitation of Robert Lowe, 1866-1868. Kristin Zimmerman - 15
'Squiff', 'Lliar George', and 'The McKennae': The unpersuasive politics of personality in the Asquith coalition, 1915-16. Martin Farr - 29
Charismatic leadership, c. 1870-1914: A comparative European Perspective. Henk te Velde - 42
An exemplary communist life? Harry Pollitt's Serving My Time in comparative perspective. Kevin Morgan - 56
A Mosleyite Life Stranger than Fiction: The Making and Remaking of Olive Hawks. Julie Gottlieb - 70
Winston Churchill and the 'Men of Destiny': Leadership and the role of the Prime Minister in wartime feature films. Jo Fox - 92
'Let us go forward together': Clementine Churchill and the role of the personality in wartime Britain. Helen Jones - 109
The trials of a biography: Roy Harrod's Life of John Maynard Keynes reconsidered. Richard Toye - 123
'Our Amazonian Colleague': Edith Summerskill's problematic reputation. Penny Summerfield - 135
Michael Foot as Labour leader: the uses of the past. Paul Corthorn - 151
'I don't think of myself as the first woman Prime Minister': Gender, Identity and Image in Margaret Thatcher's Career. Anneke Ribberink - 166
New Labour and The Sun, 1994-97. Sam Gallagher - 180
Notes - 198
Index - 234