[PDF] The Asquith Parliament eBook

Author : Herbert Henry Asquith
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :

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Discusses the history, culture, and year-round activities of the Ojibway Indians shortly after the coming of the white man.

Author : Roy Jenkins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1448211328

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First published in 1964, Asquith was one of the most crucial and controversial of modern Prime Ministers. He was opposed with a bitterness and a violence that English politicians have not subsequently known, yet he enjoyed eight and a half years of unbroken power, and for at least the first six years of these he presided with an easy authority over the most talented government of this century. The issues which he confronted were momentous – Peers v. People, Ireland, and the Great War. Bringing to bear exceptional knowledge, judgement, insight and tolerance, he survived them all. His fall seemed therefore all the more shocking.

Author : V. Markham Lester
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1498591043

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H. H. Asquith: Last of the Romans chronicles the life of H. H. Asquith (1852–1928), the longest-serving British prime minister between Lord Liverpool and Margaret Thatcher. In this study, V. Markham Lester argues that the key to understanding Asquith is to recognize the classical virtues he acquired early in his education. Employing unpublished sources and documents made public since the last full-scale biography of Asquith was published more than forty years ago, Lester challenges many interpretations in earlier biographies. Previous studies of Asquith have often glossed over his education and early years, contending that his development did not contribute materially to his mature outlook. On the contrary, by examining thoroughly Asquith’s early career—particularly his tenure as home secretary and his time as a barrister—this book offers unappreciated insights into Asquith’s character and development as a political leader. Lester further challenges the previous conclusions that Asquith failed as a war leader, demonstrating that Asquith succeeded in meeting the novel challenges of World War I and that his accomplishments have been insufficiently understood. He explains how Asquith’s lifelong reliance on rational thought, eloquence, and self-control produced the impressive leadership required to hold the fragile government together as it struggled to handle the unexpected and unprecedented challenges of world war and to lay the foundation for ultimate victory in the Great War.