Harold Wilson : Twentieth Century Man: The Prime Ministers Series

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Author: Johnson, Alan United Kingdom, Great BritainPublished on 26 September 2024 by Swift Press in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Prime Ministers' series.Hardback | 160 pages2 23 x 142 x 16 | 270g Harold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth century. Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections as well as a referendum on UK membership of the European Community. The achievements of the Wilson Era – from legalising homosexuality to protecting ethnic minorities, from women’s rights to the Open University – radically improved ordinary people’s lives for the better.In Harold Wilson, former Labour cabinet minister and bestselling author Alan Johnson presents a portrait of a truly twentieth-century man, whose ‘white heat’ speech proclaimed a scientific and technological revolution – and who was as much a part of the sixties as the Beatles and the Profumo scandal. Show more