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Harold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man: The Prime Ministers Series

By (author) Alan Johnson

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â€˜The finest prose stylist in the House of Commons since Roy Jenkinsâ€™ Mark Lawson WINNER OF A WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARD ï»¿Harold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth century. Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections as well as a referendum on UK membership of the European Community. The achievements of the Wilson Era â€“ from legalising homosexuality to protecting ethnic minorities, from womenâ€™s rights to the Open University â€“ radically improved ordinary peopleâ€™s lives for the better. In Harold Wilson, former Labour cabinet minister and bestselling author Alan Johnson presents a portrait of a truly twentieth-century man, whose â€˜white heatâ€™ speech proclaimed a scientific and technological revolution â€“ and who was as much a part of the sixties as the Beatles and the Profumo scandal.