The charm of politics; and other essays in political criticism.
- Title
- The charm of politics; and other essays in political criticism.
- Published by
- London, H. Hamilton, 1958.
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- Description
- 243 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- [1.] Politicians: The charm of politics -L.S. Amery and H.A.L. Fisher -- Roosevelt -warts and all -- Sir Winston's self-portrait -- The Truman Doctrine -- Chaim Weizmann -lover of Britain -- Liberator or terrorist? -De Valera -- The alabaster chancellor -Konrad Adenauer -- The politics of Brummagem -Neville Chamberlain -- Two pictures of Anthony Eden: After the resignation ; A comparison with Lord Halifax -- Rab Butler -ideologist of inequality -- Ramsay MacDonald -myths of 1931 -- Mr. Atlee as Premier -- Ernest Bevin's loyalty -- The under-secretary -Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare -- The turncoat -Ivor Bulmer-Thomas -- The second oldest profession -Mussolini and Coolidge -- [2.] Pundits: Illusions of power -E.H. Carr -- Arnold Toynbee: The pseudo-scientist ; Return of the prodigal -- When lightening struck the ivory tower -R.G. Collingwood -- Vanity of vanities -Malcolm Muggeridge -- The Wykehamist -"Monty" Rendall -- A Parisian Hamlet -Albert Camus -- Mr. Lippmann loses faith -- The strange case of Mr. X -George Kennan -- The ultimate conservative -Professor Michael Oakeshott -- John Strachey and the Left Book Club -- [3.] Sidelights on Hitlerism: Goebbels as a diarist -- The fuehrer's boyhood -- Heinrich Himmler's masseur -- Hitler's fool -- The ethics of extermination -- [4.] The age of treason: Traitors and apostates -Fuchs and Nunn May -- Guilt by association -Alger Hiss -- The Oppenheimer story: The hydrogen bomb ; The new loyalty -- The ex-communist -F. Borkenau -- [5.] The sword and the pen: General Fuller -the theory of total war -- The Anglo-Arab -Sir John Glubb -- The Anglo-Jew -Orde Wingate -- The strange case of Liddell Hart -- Time and Briton Hadden -- The press lord of Long Acre -- History and legend.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical footnotes.