Too Obviously Cleverer
Ferdinand Mount: Harold Macmillan, 8 September 2011
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan
by D.R. Thorpe.
Pimlico, 887 pp., £16.99, September 2011,978 1 84413 541 7 Show More
by D.R. Thorpe.
Pimlico, 887 pp., £16.99, September 2011,
The Macmillan Diaries Vol. II: Prime Minister and After 1957-66
edited by Peter Catterall.
Macmillan, 758 pp., £40, May 2011,978 1 4050 4721 0 Show More
edited by Peter Catterall.
Macmillan, 758 pp., £40, May 2011,
“... you weren’t ruthless enough.’ When Eden offered him the Exchequer, Macmillan did a Gordon Brown: insisting that ‘as chancellor, I must be undisputed head of the home front, under you’ and that there could be no question of his predecessor, Butler, being accorded the title of deputy prime minister. Barely a year later, after the Suez debacle, he ... ”