Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

xii, 785 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Dj slightly edgeworn. Leaves slightly age-darkened. Clean copy with no ownership marks. A VG copy in VG dj. 9780224040228

From Publisher:

Early in 1974, Bernard Donoughue was invited by Harold Wilson first to help fight the General Election and then to found and run the Policy Unit at Number Ten Downing Street, a body independent of the Civil Service machine working solely for the Prime Minister. He thus joined Wilson s notorious "kitchen cabinet" with Joe HainesWilson s combative press secretaryand Marcia Williams, Wilson s personal and private secretary. Donoughue remained in Downing Street throughout Wilson s final premiership, and his daily diary provides an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Harold Wilson struggling to hold the Labour Party together, drinking heavily, increasingly paranoid about "plots" and the press, and apparently in thrall to Marcia Williams. Williams had an extraordinary hold over the Prime Minister and violently resented "intrusion" from any other advisors, Donoughue included. Though the story of Wilson s "kitchen cabinet" has been told before, there has never been an account as intimate and explosive as this extraordinary diary. One of the most extraordinary accounts of modern times, this is anintimate and often explosive look at life at the heart of Harold Wilson's government."

Product Info

ISBN: 0224040227

ISBN-13: 9780224040228

Publisher: Jonathan Cape 2005

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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