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Charmley, John Denis was born on November 9, 1955 in Birkenhead, England. Son of John and Doris (Halliwell) Charmley.
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This remarkable biography, based on the hitherto unused Duff Cooper papers, is as stylish as the man. It proves that, contrary to previous accounts, the Coopers' unorthodox marriage brought both partners happiness and it sets the record straight by showing Duff Cooper to be a prophetic politcian and a man of great character.
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(In this study based on research of Chamberlain's papers, ...)
In this study based on research of Chamberlain's papers, the author argues against the commonly held view that Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Hitler was naive and weak.
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(Politician, diplomat, scholar, lover, gambler and bon viv...)
Politician, diplomat, scholar, lover, gambler and bon viveur, Duff Cooper lived life to the full. After winning the DSO in the First World War, he wooed and married the greatest beauty of the day, Lady Diana Manners. Becoming a politician, Duff Cooper had an important ministerial career until his resignation over the Munich Agreement. Called back to office by Churchill, his chequered wartime career culminated in a successful spell as Ambassador to France. 'Duff Cooper was beyond question one of the most interesting and colourful pulic figures of his time. John Charmley has written his life with clarity, subtlety and - as most befits the subject - style.' John Grigg, Observer 'Mr Charmley's biography is well researched, of genuine interest, and, above all, admirably fair.' Philip Ziegler, Sunday Times
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A revisionist historian takes on the legend of Churchill, arguing that while the prime minister did indeed save England, his mistakes cost his country, and the world, dearly. By the author of Duff Cooper. National ad/promo. Tour.
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With their fundamental distrust of change, how is it that the Conservatives have managed to cope with change relatively successfully? John Charmley has written an entertaining but fair account of one of the principal forces in modern British political history, illuminated throughout by a concentration upon the men, and the woman, who charted the party through a century of warfare and welfare. The second edition of this successful text is thoroughly updated to take into account the latest scholarship, and now has an earlier starting date to make sense of the importance of the Home Rule issue in defining late nineteenth-century Toryism. Charmley takes the story through the recent "wilderness years" following the 1997 election fiasco.
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An important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of World War II. Entertaining and absorbing....Chamberlain hardly emerges a hero from these pages, but at least there is no excuse left for regarding him as no more than a wimp in a wing-collar. —The Guardian
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Charmley, John Denis was born on November 9, 1955 in Birkenhead, England. Son of John and Doris (Halliwell) Charmley.
Bachelor, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 1977; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 1982.
From lecturer to professor modern history University East Anglia, Norwich, England, since 1979. Fulbright professor Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1992-1993.
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(Politician, diplomat, scholar, lover, gambler and bon viv...)
(Politician, diplomat, scholar, lover, gambler and bon viv...)
(An important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of ...)
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Fellow Royal History Society. Member Norfolk Club.
Married Dorothea Bartlett, July 23, 1979 (divorced 1992). Children: Gervase, Gerard (twins), Kit. Married Lorraine Fegan, July 4, 1992.