Professor Vernon Bogdanor reviews Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds Attlee: a Life in Politics
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Vernon Bogdanor has reviewed a new biography of Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds in the New Statesman (12th August 2010), calling it perhaps the most thoughtful of the various biographies of the Labour leader.
He goes on to say, There are a few fine books on the Attlee government, the best being the one by the Labour peer Kenneth Morgan. There are also biographies of him, though none of them has much scholarly depth. Perhaps the best account is a short essay, again by Kenneth Morgan, in his book Labour People, and adds, This new biography by an Oxford lecturer, Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds, takes a different approach, and goes a long way towards explaining the Attlee enigma. Although based on work in the archives and containing some original material, its main value lies in interpretation.
