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Martin Gilbert

The Will of the People

Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy

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The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill's lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life - of his working days and nights - was spent in the cut and thrust of debate in the service of the people, whose instrument he believed Parliament to be. I am a child of the House of Commons,” he told a joint session of the US Congress in December 1941. I was brought up in my father's house to believe in democracy. Trust the people - that was his message....”Throughout his career, Churchil… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-679-31469-1
  • EAN: 9780679314691
  • Produktnummer: 28482128
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.

Über den Autor


Sir Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill's official biographer, and a leading historian of the modern world. He is the author of seventy-six books, among them the single-volume Churchill: A Life, as well as his much-acclaimed twin histories, First World War and Second World War, a comprehensive History of Israel, and his three-volume History of the Twentieth Century. He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, Michigan.

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