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As a statesman, Ernest Bevin is second only to Churchill in impact and legacy. In this major, wide-ranging new biography Andrew Adonis brings to life one of Britains greatest statesmen.

Making Aristocracy Work explores the political role and activities of the peerage, both inside and outside Parliament, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Adonis examines the House of Lords and its practices during this period, and offers a new interpretation of the constitutional crisis of 1909-1911. He reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the Lords, questioning its effectiveness as a revising chamber, but at the same time clearly demonstrating the way it functioned in terms of constitutional tradition. He also examines the non-parliamentary activities of the...

An essential and detailed account of the benefits of Europe, and how we must keep the best of them in whatever agreement we negotiate.