{"product_id":"9781474611961","title":"Harold Wilson : The Winner","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Thomas-Symonds, Nick, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/09\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 544 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Orion Publishing Co,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Biography: historical political \u0026amp; military, Postwar 20th century history from c 1945 to c 2000, Political leaders \u0026amp; leadership\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781474611961\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eHarold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's greatest ever election winner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did he do it - and at what cost?Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political calculator, even as a Soviet secret agent. In this powerful new portrait, drawing on previously unavailable sources and first-hand parliamentary insight, acclaimed biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds reveals a more complex figure. Wilson was a new kind of politician but, in his own way, this media-savvy harbinger of modernity was also a deeply traditional man, whose actions often suggest nothing less than a spiritual mission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an intriguing paradox, Wilson, influenced by the distinctively democratic faith of his Yorkshire boyhood, united a fractured Labour Party, ushering in the cultural and social changes of the 'swinging sixties'. His was the government to decriminalise homosexuality, legalise abortion and abolish capital punishment. With a brilliant mind, sure-footed political moves and a feel for public opinion, he was a survivor who over and over again emerged from desperate crises - even, perhaps, conspiracies - to lead his party to victory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is time at last to learn his secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstone's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44227571056877,"sku":"9781474611961","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781474611961.jpg?v=1693652884","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781474611961","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}