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"H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister during the first World War, famously said that the job of Prime Minister "is what its holder chooses and is able to make of it." Peter Hennessy's new book uses Asquith's remark to weigh the personalities and achievements of Britain's eleven post-war premiers, showing how each resident of 10 Downing Street has made the job his or her own.". "Hennessy analyses the special chemistry of life in Number 10, scrutinizing what the Prime Minister actually does and the way that Cabinet government is run, to build up a picture of the generally hidden nexus of influence and patronage surrounding the office. Hennessy has had access to many of the leading politicians themselves, as well as the key civil servants and journalists of each period, and draws extensively on a mass of recently declassified and sometimes electrifying archival material. He illuminates, often for the first time, precise Prime Ministerial attitudes toward, and authority over, nuclear weapons policy, the planning and waging of war, and the secret services, as well as dealing with governmental overload, the Suez crisis, and the "Soviet threat." He concludes with a controversial assessment of th

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Author

Hennessy, Peter, 1947-

Publisher

Allen Lane the Penguin Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140283938

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Political Science, History

Rating

3.88 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14