Roy Jenkins A Retrospective

by Adonis, Andrew; Thomas, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780199274871
• ISBN10: 0199274878
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Roy Jenkins was a dominating figure in British politics across the four decades before his death in 2003, with an impact and legacy greater than many prime ministers of the period. These essays, by friends and associates of Roy Jenkins from every phase of his life, chart his remarkable career with insight, anecdote, and empathy. Each contributor writes from a close and unique relationship with their subject.

Author Biography

Andrew Adonis is special adviser to Tony Blair (since 1998) and was Head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, 2001-3. An Oxford history graduate, he was from 1988 to 1998 successively Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford, Public Policy Editor of the Financial Times, and a columnist and leader-writer on the Observer. His books include studies of the Victorian aristocracy, the rise and fall of the poll tax, the English class system, and the development of modern British government and politics. His biography of Roy Jenkins is forthcoming. Keith Thomas, like Roy Jenkins, was educated at South Wales grammar school (Barry) and at Balliol College, Oxford. He is an Oxford historian who was a college tutor at St John's and, later, President of Corpus Christi. In 2001 he returned to All Souls College, where he was a Fellow in the 1950s. He has been President of the British Academy (1993-7), a Trustee of the British Museum (since 1999). His writings on social and cultural history include Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971) and Man and the Natural World (1983).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii
List of Figures	xv
Roy Jenkins, 1920-2003	xvii
1. Youth	3	(8)
PITA KARAKA AND HUGH BRACE
2. Balliol	11	(8)
RONALD MCINTOSH
3. Bletchley	19	(12)
ASA BRIGGS
4. Backbencher	31	(20)
ALAN WATKINS
5. Birmingham	51	(10)
ROY HATTERSLEY
6. A Young Home Secretary	61	(24)
PHILIP ALLEN
7. Chancellor of the Exchequer	85	(24)
DICK TAVERNE
8. 'The Welsh Wrecker'	109	(32)
DAVID MARQUAND
9. The Home Office Again	141	(24)
ANTHONY LESTER
10. A Life in Caricature	165	(14)
KENNETH BAKER
11. President of the European Commission	179	(26)
CRISPIN TICKELL
12. The European Achievement	205	(6)
CHRISTOPHER TUGENDHAT
13. SDP	211	(26)
BILL RODGERS
14. Glasgow	237	(8)
DONALD MCFARLANE
15. Back and Forth to the United States	245	(8)
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
16. Oxford's Chancellor	253	(18)
ANTHONY KENNY
17. Writer and Biographer	271	(36)
DAVID CANNADINE
18. A Late Friendship	307	(10)
ROBERT HARRIS
19. A Biographer's Tale	317	(16)
ANDREW ADONIS
Acknowledgements	333	(1)
Picture Acknowledgements	334	(1)
Index	335