Hugh Dalton

by Ben Pimlott

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Genres: Nonfiction

768 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

A professor of modern British political history, Ben Pimlott was professor of contemporary history at Birkbeck College, London, from 1987 to 1998, and warden of Goldsmith's College from 1998 until his death in 2004.

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ben Pimlott is a talented writer and this is evidently clear throughout. However Daltons wartime ministerial career is given too much focus which consists of intractable bureaucratic wrangling, whilst the Bevanite wars of the early 1950s is given too little focus. It is also hard to conclude that Dalton deserves such a weighty (644pp) book written about him.

[Ipswichblade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent biography of an important member of Atlee's goverment