Anthony Eden
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Edition: First US edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A definitive political biography, Anthony Eden presents a sweeping and meticulously researched account of one of Britain's most complex and ultimately tragic statesmen. Robert Rhodes James chronicles Eden's remarkable rise through the ranks of British diplomacy and politics, from his early brilliance as Foreign Secretary in the 1930s — where he famously resigned in opposition to Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini — to his long, frustrating wait in Churchill's shadow. The biography argues with compelling authority that Eden was a man of genuine principle and considerable talent whose legacy was catastrophically overshadowed by the disastrous 1956 Suez Crisis, a miscalculation that ended his premiership in humiliation and ill health. Written with the measured, authoritative tone of a seasoned historian, James neither wholly condemns nor uncritically celebrates his subject, instead illustrating the profound tensions between Eden's personal integrity and the brutal realities of mid-twentieth-century power politics. The result is an essential and absorbing work for anyone seeking to understand the decline of British imperial confidence in the postwar era.
Author: Robert Rhodes James
Format: Hardback
Published: 1987, McGraw-Hill Book Company
Genre: Biography
Edition: First US edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A definitive political biography, Anthony Eden presents a sweeping and meticulously researched account of one of Britain's most complex and ultimately tragic statesmen. Robert Rhodes James chronicles Eden's remarkable rise through the ranks of British diplomacy and politics, from his early brilliance as Foreign Secretary in the 1930s — where he famously resigned in opposition to Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini — to his long, frustrating wait in Churchill's shadow. The biography argues with compelling authority that Eden was a man of genuine principle and considerable talent whose legacy was catastrophically overshadowed by the disastrous 1956 Suez Crisis, a miscalculation that ended his premiership in humiliation and ill health. Written with the measured, authoritative tone of a seasoned historian, James neither wholly condemns nor uncritically celebrates his subject, instead illustrating the profound tensions between Eden's personal integrity and the brutal realities of mid-twentieth-century power politics. The result is an essential and absorbing work for anyone seeking to understand the decline of British imperial confidence in the postwar era.