{"product_id":"cancelled-prime-minister","title":"Cancelled Prime Minister","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the first working-class politician to reach Britain's highest office was brought down, and his legacy disparaged.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamsay MacDonald was born an illegitimate child in north-east Scotland. Leaving school at fourteen, he seemed bound to follow in his ploughman father's footsteps. Instead, he would become the UK's first Labour Prime Minister--a friend of George V and a global political star. How did he get there from his Highland bothy? Why has he been erased from political memory? And how did this leftist parliamentarian end up leading a Conservative-dominated National Government?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMacDonald's was an elusive, Celtic personality, easier to criticise than to understand. Historian Walter Reid demystifies this fascinating politician, dismissing the common charge of treacherous ambition and tracing MacDonald's personal odyssey--including half a life grieving his wife Margaret, a remarkable feminist and social reformer lost young to blood poisoning. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistory has been unkind to MacDonald, and most often written with politically hostile pens. Drawing extensively on his private diaries, this biography restores a towering figure to his rightful historical place, and reveals his full complexity--a man not without faults, but able and honourable, with deep and widespread interests.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C Hurst \u0026 Co Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55634855821656,"sku":"9781805265306","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781805265306.jpg?v=1777995030","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cancelled-prime-minister","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}