Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969
by Bonham Carter, Violet; Bonham Carter, Mark, and Pottle, Mark (Edited by), and Jenkins, Roy (Introduction by)
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Cloth, xxxi, 431 pages, [12] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Lady Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of the Liberal prime minister H. H. Asquith, and herself a leading Liberal, was described by Winston Churchill in 1951 as 'one of the very best speakers, male or female'. She was also a writer of distinction, Clement Attlee praising her 1965 biography of Churchill: 'Amazing that her first book, at 78, should be so good.' Its intended sequel was never written, but here, is the raw material for a worthy successor. 'Winston has many faults but he is the one great forest tree that still stands' she wrote in 1950. 'When I am with him I feel the perspective of history'. That 'perspective' is vividly captured here and a galaxy of political stars comes into view - Attlee 'feeling the Atlas weight of his responsibility' as prime minister; Anthony Eden, 'accomplishing his own destruction by the suicidal blunder of Suez'; Harold Macmillan, 'How little I dreamed that he would ever blossom into "Super-Mac"'; President Kennedy, 'Above all I had the sense of greatness - in a greater degree than I have felt it about anyone since I first met Winston at the age of 19'. These are also the writings of an active politician with an international standing - an ardent campaigner for a United Europe: 'If we fail one realises suddenly that one is looking on at the suicide of a civilisation'; above all, a passionate Liberal struggling to save her party from extinction, and contemplating a deal with the Conservatives: 'But can one buy survival with dishonour?'' / Mark Pottle read modern history at the University of Sheffield and at Wolfson College, Oxford (where he is now a research fellow). He is the editor of the previous volumes of these letters & diaries." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Title
- Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969
- Author
- Bonham Carter, Violet; Bonham Carter, Mark, and Pottle, Mark (Edited by), and Jenkins, Roy (Introduction by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0297816519
- ISBN 13
- 9780297816515
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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