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John Major : Prime Minister
by Major, John. (editor John Jenkin, intro Chris Moncrieff)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747509425
- ISBN 13
- 9780747509424
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury. Fine/Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0747509425 Dust wrapper price clipped. Black cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. No inscription. 206 pages clean and tight. John Major's rapid rise to power has left people of all political persuasions asking, "Who is the Prime Minister?". This book provides the answer. It tells the story of Major's political career as it developed, in the words of the journalists who wrote about him all the time. All the articles - from both the national and the regional press - represent the original coverage of events as they happened, viewed both from Fleet Street and from Major's Cambridgeshire constituency. From Major's entry into Parliament in 1979 as MP for Huntingdon, through his first ministerial appointment, in the Department of Health in 1985, to his sudden elevation to the premiership in 1990, all the details are here: the facts and the figures, the campaigns and the policies, the modest successes and the blazing triumphs. Reports and features covering his early life, his political infancy as a Lambeth councillor and his initial attempts to win a parlimentary seat in the general election of 1974 are also included. Illustrated with 60 photographs spanning the full eleven and a half years of his parliamentary career, this book is enlivened by newspaper headlines and Press Association timed newsflashes. It provides an assessment of the man whose meteoric ascent through the House of Commons has made him the nation's youngest Prime Minister since Lord Rosebery. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136474
- Title
- John Major : Prime Minister
- Author
- Major, John. (editor John Jenkin, intro Chris Moncrieff)
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0747509425
- ISBN 13
- 9780747509424
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Biography, Polotics, Conservatives
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
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