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100			_a"Grainger, J. H."
245		0	_aCharacter and style in English Politics
260			_aCambridge
260			_bUniversity Press
260			_c1969
300			_a291p.
520			_aA study of leading English politicians from the Tudor period to the present day. In his introductory chapter Mr Grainger discusses the general nature of the politician's work, the importance of imagination, common sense and verbal felicity and attempts to pin down what the 'greatness' of 'great' politicians involved. In the main part of this book he presents a series of brilliant interpretative essays on indi vidual politicians. Mr Grainger makes the distinction between 'character' and 'style' as touchstones to identify and evaluate the quali ties of those dissident politicians who spoke for country against court in the seventeenth century and those who took a stand in the eighteenth century but were assimilated into the political order. This is followed by a discussion of Victorian political heroes, and of notable leaders, Liberal, Labour and Conservative, of the twentieth century.
650			_aPolitical Science.
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