Author: Cannadine, David
Title: In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. Second edition, orig.boards. 24x16cm, xiv,386 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Churchill in His World; Parliament: The Palace of Westminster as the Palace of Varieties; Statecraft: The Haunting Fear of National Decline;Thrones: Churchill and Monarchy in Britain and Beyond; Language: Churchill as the Voice of Destiny; Politics in Diverse Modes; Locality: The ' Chamberlain Tradition' and Birmingham; Piety: Josiah Wedgwood and the History of Parliament; Emollience: Stanley Baldwin and Francis Brett Young; Diplomacy: G.M. Trevelyan and B. Merriman; Vanishing Supremacies?; Tradition: Gilbert and Sullivan as a 'National Institution'; Conservation: The National Trust and the National Heritage; Sendiment: Nöel Coward's Patriotic Ardour; Fantasy: Ian Fleming and the Realities of Escapism.

Keywords: British Political History, Winston Churchill, Government, Great Britain, Politics, , , ,