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This is the first biography of Stanley Baldwin for more than 10 years, although there had been four in the preceding ten years. This is weird, for Baldwin has recently started to swim back into fashion. In part this is a function of growing nostalgia for his period of power, the 1920s and 1930s. Still more, however, for the reason that Mrs Thatcher's brand of Conservative control has made him an thing of contrasting interest in a way that Harold Macmillan's or Edward Heath's never do. Whenever a new exponent of an alternative style briefly achieves notice, it is now frequently advised that he could be a new Baldwin. This reappraisal is therefore correctly timed. It is written by an experienced politics biographer, from a non-Conservative, while not in person unsympathetic, standpoint. Baldwin was born in 1867, the boy of a abundant Worcestershire ironmaster, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College or university, Cambridge. Then performed in the family business for 20 years. Although most self-conscious countryman amidst British Primary Ministers of days gone by 100 years or more, he was not a country squire rather than owned lots of acres of land. He did not enter the House of Commons until he was 40, and was not even a junior minister until the threshold of 50. Less than six years later, in 1923, he became leading minister and dominated United kingdom politics for another 15 years - the only real man of the century to carry the best office three times. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Roy Jenkins (1920- 2003) dished up in a number of major articles in Harold Wilson's first authorities and as home secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to achieve success Harold Macmillan as chancellor of the University of Oxford, following the latter's death, a position he performed until his death. Jenkins grew to politics maturity during the twilight of the great get older of United kingdom parliamentary democracy. Around Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith, and Lloyd George.
