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Chargement... Inside Number 10par Marcia Williams
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With gusto, wit, and affection, Marcia Williams, longtime personal and political secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, describes her five and one-half years at the heart of British political life. Inside Number 10 is, above all, a revealing portrait of Harold Wilson - a man of superior intellect, intense loyalties and involvement with his country, who was, "perhaps too kind for a Prime Minister." --from inside jacket flap. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I read this work because Bernard Donoughue has written a book, which I recently consumed, in which, he set out his reminiscences of the period of Harold Wilson's Government. Donoughue was particularly abrasive about Wilson's relationship with Williams. He made many unsavoury suggestions as to what this might be. Williams does not 'dish the dirt', rather she tries to analyse the main characters, particularly Mr. Wilson. Her caricatures are always kindly drawn and, whilst this does not answer the questions, it does cast grave doubts upon the version of Mr D.
The final pages are a well considered review of Wilson's time in power; the things that went well, the errors that were made and the changes that would be needed for a working Labour/Civil Service relationship. Some of those things have come to pass in the intervening years but so much still remains to be done. ( )