Isbn: 9780241020074 - Art of the Possible: Memoirs (17 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, some spotting and creasing. Owner signature to ffep and prelim page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. pp.xii, 274 pages, portrait frontispiece, 16 pages of plates, and 6 cartoons, hardback, a near fine copy in a very good plus dust-jacket [0241020077].

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0241020077.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Impression. Good condition hardcover red boards showing title etc on spine clearly, no DJ. 274 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. No foxing, no previous names. Several black and white photographs.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscription on prelims. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: GD/GD/ND. y First Edition. HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1971* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, silver title to brown spine label. No bumps or rubs, some slight wear to spine. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers, dark brown. Clean, crisp and tight with light reading wear, slight fox marks to pages throughout, top edge coloured red, for-edge marked. GD* Illustrations: B/w photo to frontis & b/w photos and line drawings within text.* Pages: 262 pp. text. xii pp. index at rear.* Description: In this autobiography, The Art of the Possible, Butler attributes his political gifts to his grandmother Mary Kendall of Pelyn, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. He wrote a lengthy paragraph on the Kendall family, who had served in Parliament since 1368 and had been active in politics for many generations. It has been remarked of this family that they have perhaps sent more members to the British Parliament than any other in the United Kingdom.* A GOOD copy of the 1st. edn. with some considerable foxing. No dust jacket.* 1971-07-12.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is rubbed, edgeworn and a bit soiled but has suffered little paper loss. Internally clean (one inscription) and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Good in chipped dustwrapper. x + 274pp.

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. A Good Plus, internally clean, solid hard cover copy without a dust jacket. First Edition. Spine lettering worn. Covers a bit bowed. #. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Mylar Sleeve. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. 274 pages with b/w pictures. A straight clean book, owner's name on front page, otherwise internally spotless. Dust jacket bright and price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This is a very well written autobiography of one of the most interesting politicians of the twentieth century. It is brief, especially so when you consider Macmillan managed five volumes, but none the worse for that. Butler never became PM, being siccessfully knifed in the back on two occasions but maybe in the end he just didn't want it enough. Ref YYY 6.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second Impression [stated]. xiii, [1], 274 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Index. No dust jacket present. Minor wear. Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 - 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively Deputy Prime Minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the official title for a brief period in 1962-63. He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the main points of domestic policy until the 1970s; it is sometimes known as "Butskellism" from a fusion of his name with that of his Labour counterpart, Hugh Gaitskell. Butler had a distinguished academic career before he entered Parliament in 1929. He helped to pass the Government of India Act 1935. Entering the Cabinet in 1941, he served as President of the Board of Education (1941-1945) and oversaw the Education Act 1944. When the Conservatives returned to power in 1951, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951-1955), Home Secretary (1957-1962), First Secretary of State (1962-1963) and Foreign Secretary (1963-1964). Butler had an exceptionally long ministerial career and was one of only two British politicians (the other being John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon) to have served in three of the four Great Offices of State but never to have been Prime Minister for which he was passed over in 1957 and 1963. In 1965, Butler was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Butler's memoirs, The Art of the Possible, appeared in 1971. He wrote that he had decided to "eschew the current autobiographical fashion for multi-volume histories". (Macmillan was bringing out an autobiography, which would eventually run to six large volumes.) The work, largely ghosted by Peter Goldman, was described as the best single-volume autobiography since Duff Cooper's Old Men Forget in 1953. Butler opened his memoirs by saying that his career had been split between academia, politics and India and that his main regret was never having been Viceroy of India. He regarded the 1935 India Act and the 1944 Education Act as his "principal legislative achievements". He also wrote that the way to the top was through rebellion and resignation, but he had gone for "the long haul" and "steady influence". His obituary in The Times in 1982 called him "the creator of the modern educational system, the key-figure in the revival of post-war Conservatism, arguably the most successful chancellor since the war and unquestionably a Home Secretary of reforming zeal". Along with the 1944 Education Act and Butler's reforms as Home Secretary, John Campbell sees Butler's greatest achievement as the "redefine(ing of) the meaning of Conservatism" in opposition by encouraging the careers of talented younger men at the Research Department (Heath, Powell, Maudling, Macleod and Angus Maude, all of whom entered Parliament in 1950), by ensuring Conservative acceptance of the welfare state and a commitment to keeping unemployment low. Macmillan acknowledged Butler's role in his memoirs but stressed that those were the very policies that he had promoted in vain in the 1930s. Butler enjoyed 26.5 years in office, equaled only by Churchill in the twentieth century. The Economist (27 June 1970) called him "the last real policy-making Chancellor".…

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60137928: 1971. In-8. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 274 pages. Photo en noir et blanc en frontispice (portrait). Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Tranche en tête brune. Jaquette manquante. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.…

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