DAVID WALTER - The Oxford Union: Playground of Power

London England, Macdonald, 1984. Firsr Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0356095029 Hardback Hardback. Foreword by Harold MacMillan. The author, a former Union President, tells the story of the Union and its more illustrious members in this century. Politics and foreign affairs are far from the only matters to preoccupy the Union. The notable periods of socialist fervour, the 1930s and the 1960s - 1933 was the year of the famous King and Country debate while the 1960s marked the high point of demonstration and protest - have perhaps been exceptions to the norm. Lighter topics are as popular as more sombre ones. The Union remains a place where great care is lavished on the speeches, where the audience is one of the most critical in the country, and where the vanishing art of formal debating is lovingly nurtured. 240 pp.