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The book concentrates on Cripps in and out of office after 1940. We get through the first 50 years of his life in 80 pages, leaving Clarke plenty of space to unpick with great precision the principal events and controversies of the 1940s: the rivalry with Churchill, the coaxing of Stalin, the placating of Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah, and the management of the post-war British economy. This is political biography at its very best. If Cripps emerges as a less colourful character from this definitive work, he is also revealed as a more credible politician, who achieved his ends by a combination of hard work, charm, noblesse oblige, a strong Christian ethic and only a smattering of ideology. --Miles Taylor
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