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Roy Jenkins was a civilized, liberal, decent politician, for those who liked him. For harsher critics, he was a snob who had betrayed his party and his working-class roots. He had set out to be prime minister but his focus was never on politics alone. He was a rare creature among modern politicians, and a prolific and noted author and journalist.
1. Gladstone. A Biography. Roy Jenkins. Random House, New York, 1997, 710 pages. Qui est William Ewart Gladstone ? Une immense expérience de la vie publique, des grands talents de financier, une gravité de mœurs, une ferveur religieuse - en dépit d'une jeunesse dissipée et galante, une instruction classique, une puissance de parole, qui ...
Resumen y sinopsis de Churchill de Roy Jenkins. A partir de su propia experiencia y de su extraordinario conocimiento de la historia de Gran Bretaña, Roy Jenkins analiza en esta obra monumental la vida de uno de los iconos de la historia política moderna de Europa a través de sus campañas, elecciones, cambios de opinión, virtudes y ...
Leeroy Jenkins es el protagonista de un video de Machinima de World of Warcraft y uno de los memes de Internet que más rápido se ha extendido. El vídeo relata la preparación y posterior ejecución del encuentro de la Rookery en la mazmorra Upper Blackrock Spire del juego de Blizzard Entertainment anteriormente mencionado.
Roy Jenkins was elected as a Labour MP in 1948 and after a long ministerial career and a term as President of the European Commission he became a life peer in 1987. In the Lords he was prominent as the Leader of the Liberal Democrat peers but also had a successful career as a writer, producing a number of acclaimed biographies and serving as President of the Royal Society of Literature.
17 de sept. de 2018 · Roy Jenkins, 1967-70 Labour, under Wilson You can read about his time as home secretary and the rest of his career here. After the devaluation crisis, Jenkins was simultaneously the leading figure in Wilson’s government, Wilson’s most likely successor and the man under the most pressure in an intensely febrile period in British political history.…
When asked to name a famous Welsh politician, most would turn to one of the two great orators, David Lloyd George or Aneurin Bevan. Yet Roy Jenkins, a native of Pontypool and son of Monmouthshire miners leader Arthur Jenkins, was Home Secretary twice, between 1965-67 and 1974-76, as well as serving as a popular Chancellor between 1967 and 1970.
