The Prime Ministers Who Never Were : A Collection of Political Counterfactuals

1st ed, 1st imp. Black cloth covered boards with silver titles to spine. DJ has very minor shelfwear. Series of essays edited by Beckett speculating about what might have happen had some of those proclaimed as the "the greatest Prime Minister who Never Was" had actually come to power; but these speculations are more than just fun - they give much food for thought. Those considered are Austen Chamberlain, J R Clynes, Lord Halifax, Oswald Moseley, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Gaitskell, Rab Butler, George Brown, Norman Tebbit, Michael Foot, Denis Healey, Neil Kinnock, John Smith and David Miliband.