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Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women. The world was torn apart by two extraordinarily bloody wars. And individual politicians were cheered for their altruism or their bravery and jeered for their sexual or financial misdemeanours. This second volume of Chris Bryant's majestic Parliament: The Biography has a cast of characters that includes some of British history's most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Its recurring theme is reform and innovation, but it also lays bare obsessive respect for the past and a dedication to evolution rather than revolution, which has left us with a fudged constitution still perilously dependent on custom, convention and gentlemen's agreements. This is riveting, flawlessly researched and accessible popular history for anyone with an interest in why modern Britain is the nation it is today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Mr Bryant is an MP and, whilst he is scrupulously honest about the parliamentary failings - both historical and current - he does tend to attempt to play down the horror of the situation. He is guilty, on several occasions, of trying to convince the reader that things are better because the absolutely indefensible errors of the current miscreants is slightly less worse than their forebears. I need more convincing - on second thoughts, NO I DON'T!
Definitely worth reading, but an effort to finnish. ( )