New PDF release: Edward Heath: A Singular Life

By Michael McManus

Sir Edward Heath KG MBE MP (1916-2005) used to be the 1st chief of the Conservative occasion to come back from a working-class history; he used to be additionally the 1st chief to be elected via the party's MPs, instead of 'emerging'. His time as top Minister (1970-74) used to be marked through business unrest, an upsurge of violence in Northern eire and critical fiscal turbulence, exacerbated by means of an international oil quandary. He was once famously chargeable for taking the uk into the ecu fiscal neighborhood (now the eu Union). After Margaret Thatcher deposed him as Conservative chief in 1975, his sour public feud along with her lasted for over decades.

In this landmark booklet Michael McManus, Heath's one-time political secretary, gathers reflections and contributions from an remarkable variety of resources, together with Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine, Roy Jenkins, Jim past and Steve Redgrave, to shed new gentle at the character and politics of Sir Edward Heath.

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