4 books by Roy Jenkins
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Overview: Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PC was a British politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he became the first (and so far only) British President of the European Commission (1977-81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Politics
European Diary, 1977-1981
First published in 1989, this diary provides the background to two vital issues: our relations with the European Community and the state of politics in Britain. Few people are better qualified to know how we arrived where we are than Roy Jenkins. During the period of this diary he was President of the European Commission. The diary provides a picture of the day-to-day life of the head of an international organization, of the conflicting pressures and grinding routine, of the importance of personal relationships with world leaders such as Helmut Schmidt, Val ry Giscard d’Estaing, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt, Jean Monnet and Jimmy Carter.In addition to the political chronicle we have frank and sometimes unguarded revelations about the author, his tastes and preoccupations, from which emerges a man more imbued with public passion, more eccentric and with a more varied private life than many readers may expect. His subtle perception of people is revealed in brilliant portraits of, for example, Schmidt, pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet and yet notably constructive, and Giscard d’Estaing, highly intelligent but with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous.For those concerned with the way the world is developing and the impact of a civilized and essentially private personality on public events, "European Diary" is compulsory reading.
Mr Balfour’s Poodle
Jenkins’ account of the constitutional struggle between the Liberal government of the early twentieth century and the House of Lords.
The battle started with the introduction of the People’s Budget of 1909 and continued through two general elections until 1911 when the Lords accepted the Parliament bill.
Portraits and Miniatures
In "Portraits and Miniatures," Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intelligence and elegant prose to subjects ranging from literature and political history to wine and croquet. Long experience in both Houses of Parliament and as President of the European Commission has given him unparalleled insight into political figures such as R. A. Butler, Aneurin Bevan, Konrad Adenauer, and de Gaulle. A varied selection of essays, "Portraits and Miniatures" is fascinating, witty, and endlessly entertaining.
Truman
In this incisive and readable biography of Harry S. Truman, Roy Jenkins provides a radical reassessment of the American President whose reputation, more than any other of this century, has risen since he left office. He shows that the Truman presidency (1945-53) built the structures within which the Western world has lived since the Second World War. The Marshall Plan promoted not only the recovery, but the unity of Western Europe; NATO enabled this prosperity to grow within a framework of security. Truman’s decisions – for all his private indiscretions and occasional muddles – were film and level-headed, guiding the Western world through the many dangers of the unstable postwar years.
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