Herbert Samuel
A Political Life
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 23 January 1992
- ISBN 9780198226482
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages444 pages
- Size 242x162x33 mm
- Weight 932 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, 16 pp plates, 3 cartoons 0
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Short description:
Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political life began in the age of Gladstone and ended in the era of Grimond. Bernard Wasserstein has written a scholarly and readable biographical study, tracing Samuel's role in the survival of the Liberal Party, his important contribution to the emergence of the state of Israel, and his later life as a philosopher, respected elder statesman, and admired broadcaster.
MoreLong description:
Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political life coincided with the long drawn-out sunset of Liberalism as a dominant political force in Britain. His career in the Liberal Party began in the age of Gladstone and ended in the era of Grimond. At the turn of the century Samuel played a vital role in the formulation of the `New Liberalism', and later helped translate that doctrine into legislation that laid the foundations of the welfare state. He played a central role in the history of Zionism, serving as first British High Commissioner in Palestine from 1920 to 1925. He returned to office in the National Government of 1931, and led the Liberal Party between 1931 and 1935. In later life Samuel won a broad public audience as a philosopher, a respected elder statesman, and a much admired broadcaster.
Bernard Wasserstein assesses Samuel's importance in British politics and in the emergence of the state of Israel. This accessible and scholarly biography, based on extensive research in all the available sources, provides a revealing portrait of a leading twentieth-century statesman.
`It is much to Wasserstein's credit that he has brought Samuel to life in these pages, and told with utmost readibility the story of a man whose career was intimately bound up with the creative days of Liberalism before 1914 ... the great strength of this book is that it weaves together the author's extremely wide-ranging archival trawlings and delvings into a seamless and fascinating narrative.'
Martin Gilbert, The Times.
