Marcia Falkender (1932–2019)
Auteur de Inside Number 10
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Marcia Falkender
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Williams, Marcia
- Autres noms
- Field, Marcia Matilda (birth name)
Falkender, Baroness Marcia - Date de naissance
- 1932-03-10
- Date de décès
- 2019-02-06
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- England
- Lieu de naissance
- Long Buckby, England, UK
- Études
- University of London (Queen Mary College|BA|History)
- Professions
- private secretary
- Relations
- Wilson, Harold (political secretary)
Wilson, Mary (friend) - Courte biographie
- private secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 10
- Popularité
- #908,816
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
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.… (plus d'informations)