Making Reputations Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics

List of Illustrations - vii
Contributors - viii
Introduction. Richard Toye and Julie Gottlieb - 1
Constructing Life Stories. Peter Marsh - 5
Gladstonian Liberalism and the rehabilitation of Robert Lowe, 1866-1868. Kristin Zimmerman - 15
'Squiff', 'Lliar George', and 'The McKennae': The unpersuasive politics of personality in the Asquith coalition, 1915-16. Martin Farr - 29
Charismatic leadership, c. 1870-1914: A comparative European Perspective. Henk te Velde - 42
An exemplary communist life? Harry Pollitt's Serving My Time in comparative perspective. Kevin Morgan - 56
A Mosleyite Life Stranger than Fiction: The Making and Remaking of Olive Hawks. Julie Gottlieb - 70
Winston Churchill and the 'Men of Destiny': Leadership and the role of the Prime Minister in wartime feature films. Jo Fox - 92
'Let us go forward together': Clementine Churchill and the role of the personality in wartime Britain. Helen Jones - 109
The trials of a biography: Roy Harrod's Life of John Maynard Keynes reconsidered. Richard Toye - 123
'Our Amazonian Colleague': Edith Summerskill's problematic reputation. Penny Summerfield - 135
Michael Foot as Labour leader: the uses of the past. Paul Corthorn - 151
'I don't think of myself as the first woman Prime Minister': Gender, Identity and Image in Margaret Thatcher's Career. Anneke Ribberink - 166
New Labour and The Sun, 1994-97. Sam Gallagher - 180
Notes - 198
Index - 234