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Lloyd George - John Grigg - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Lloyd George - John Grigg - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

John Grigg''s four volume life of Lloyd George is one of the great political biographies. Volume 2, The People''s Champion 1902-1911 , in the author''s own words ''carries the story on to the zenith of his whole career before the Great War. By the end of 1911 he had already achieved far more than be claimed for most politicians in a lifetime. . . . The period covered here is one of intense controversy and acrimony, in which Lloyd George''s speeches attacking the Conservative Party and its lordly backers are among the finest examples of polemical oratory in the English language.'' The central drama is the constitutional conflict surrounding Lloyd George''s 1909 Budget, the People''s Budget, which was such a powerful tool of social reform. There is much more besides, not least vivid portrayals of his relations with Asquith and Winston Churchill. The latter, again in John Grigg''s own words ''was Lloyd George''s closest colleague in two ways: they worked together on major reforming projects, and both were men of genius. .. .They also enjoyed each other''s company and had a strong affinity of temperament. ''This volume won the Whitbread Prize. It is a tragedy John Grigg didn''t live to complete his magnum opus but what exists is a masterpiece. Faber Finds is reissuing the four volumes: The Young Lloyd George , Lloyd George: The People''s Champion 1902-1911 , Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912-1916 , Lloyd George: War Leader 1916-1918 .''A delight to read and a contribution to our political history of the greatest importance. Above all, it does justice to David Lloyd George, the greatest British statesman of the twentieth century.'' A. J. P. Taylor, Observer ''John Grigg is a biographer who loves his subject and captures him with artistry - a pleasure to read. He has given us the most intimate and subtly drawn portrait we have ever had of this remarkable man.'' Paul Addison, New Statesman ''The book succeeds admirably. Its proportions are exactly right, and it is written with a dynamism worthy of its subject.'' Stephen Koss, Times Literary Supplement ''A masterly biography ... .. it is unlikely that it will be superseded.'' Robert Blake, Sunday Times

DKK 210.00
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Lloyd George - John Grigg - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Lloyd George - John Grigg - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

John Grigg''s four volume life of Lloyd George is one of the great political biographies. Volume 1, The Young Lloyd George , covers the years from his birth in 1863 to the end of the Boer War in 1902. John Grigg describes the future Prime Minister''s emergence as a local solicitor and politician and his first twelve years in the House of Commons. In the process he challenges many stock assumptions about Lloyd George while never losing sight of the man behind the politician, nor forgetting that politics were the dominating passion of his life. It is a tragedy John Grigg didn''t live to complete his magnum opus but what exists is a masterpiece. Faber Finds is reissuing the four volumes: The Young Lloyd George , Lloyd George: The People''s Champion 1902-1911 , Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912-1916 , Lloyd George: War Leader 1916-1918 .''I would not have believed that anyone could write a new volume of Lloyd George''s biography which would make everything previously written look narrow-sighted and stale. By the quality of his perception and writing he has given a new sharpness and interpretation.'' Roy Jenkins, Observer ''The most brilliant biographer of our times, whose books on Lloyd George will be read as long as civilization lasts.'' Brian Walden, Evening Standard ''Difficult to overpraise. . . Mr Grigg has dug up a whole mass of information. A mixture of shrewd human judgement and unblinkered insight.'' C. P. Snow, Financial Times .

DKK 210.00
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Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems - A. L. Lloyd - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems - A. L. Lloyd - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

A. L. Lloyd was nothing if not versatile, ethnomusicologist, journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and translator. It is as the author of Folk Song in England , also reissued in Faber Finds, that he is best known, but, in this his centenary year (2008) Faber Finds is also celebrating him as a translator.1937 was A. L. Lloyd''s annus mirabilis as a translator. In it he published both his translations of Lorca - Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter - and Kafka''s Metamorphosis . There aren''t many who can translate with equal facility from Spanish and German. Not only did A. L. Lloyd do that, his translations were both firsts, the first translation of Lorca into English and the first English translation of Kafka''s most famous story. On first publication A. L. Lloyd''s Lorca translation was widely praised with V. S. Pritchett especially commending it in The New Statesman .

DKK 157.00
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Lloyd George - John Grigg - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Lloyd George - John Grigg - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

John Grigg''s four volume life of Lloyd George is one of the great political biographies. This, the third volume, in the author''s own words ''will cover the five-year period from the beginning of 1912 until the end of 1916, when he replaced Asquith in the premiership. It will attempt to describe his last efforts as a reforming minister in a peacetime party government, and then his transformation into a dynamic war minister as the country faced an ordeal more profoundly disturbing than the civil wars of the seventeenth century, and probably more so than anything it had experienced since the Black Death.''This volume won the Wolfson Prize in 1985. It is a tragedy John Grigg didn''t live to complete his magnum opus but what exists is a masterpiece. Faber Finds is reissuing the four volumes: The Young Lloyd George , Lloyd George: The People''s Champion 1902-1911 , Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912-1916 , Lloyd George: War Leader 1916-1918 .''The forcefulness of Grigg''s writing makes this biography one of the very few books that are worth reading from cover to cover.'' Norman Stone, Sunday Times ''This is the biography. The research is thorough, the writing is lively, and above all, the stance is right.'' Asa Briggs, Guardian ''Lloyd George is extraordinarily lucky in his latest biographer. It is the measure of his rehabilitation that he can be weighed in the balance by such an exacting critic, found wanting in several important respects, and yet emerge with his human and political stature only enhanced.'' John Campbell, The Times

DKK 227.00
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Lloyd George - John Campbell - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Lloyd George - John Campbell - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Lloyd George fell from power in October 1922, never to hold office again. As a result he has tended to be written out of the politics of the 1920s. But John Campbell (in this, his first book, published in 1977) argues that Lloyd George remained the central figure on the political stage until 1931: his ''spectre haunted the Cabinet Room of his successors like Banquo''s ghost.'' He worked with Keynes and others to find a remedy for mass unemployment; but the two-party trap was closing on the Liberals, and a great career was doomed to end in frustration and disappointment. ''A vivid and sympathetic picture of the greatest British politician of the [twentieth] century. It throws a new light on the politics of the 1920s, and in particular on the internal politics of the Liberal Party.'' David Marquand, TLS ''No praise could be too high for this book.'' John Grigg, Spectator.

DKK 210.00
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The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935 - Trevor Wilson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935 - Trevor Wilson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

By 1914 the Liberal Party had been governing Britain ever since its stunning general election victory of 1906. Four years later the Party was out of office, and so enfeebled it would never again form a government. What prompted the Liberal decline in the years of The Great War, and why did this decline then accelerate? Trevor Wilson''s classic study analyses the strains exerted on Liberal principles by war, and the leadership crisis induced in 1916 by Lloyd George''s ousting of Asquith.''A good political mystery, and Mr Wilson has told it in fine dramatic style.'' A.J.P. Taylor''Offers portraits of those rivals, Asquith and Lloyd George, that are among the best - the most plausible and the most temperate - available.'' New Yorker

DKK 192.00
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