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In Portraits and Miniatures, Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intellect and chic prose to subjects ranging from books and political record to wine beverages and croquet. Long experience in both Homes of Parliament so when Chief executive of the European Commission has given him unmatched insight into political results such as R. A. Butler, Aneurin Bevan, Konrad Adenauer, and de Gaulle. A numerous selection of essays, Portraits and Miniatures is fascinating, witty, and endlessly amusing. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Jenkins (1920- 2003) served in several major content in Harold Wilson's First Administration so when Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to achieve success Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the School of Oxford following the latter's death, a posture he organised until his death. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of any great age of British isles parliamentary democracy. Just as much as Churchill, though in a significant different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.

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