Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden: a political biography, 1931-1957 Victor Rothwell
Publisher: Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; c1992.
ISBN: 0719032423
DDC: 941.0855092
LCC: DA566.9
Edition: (hardback)
Summary:
In this significant reassessment of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon,
Victor Rothwell makes use of newly available information to move
beyond the evaluations of the two major biographies published since
Eden's death in 1977. Focusing particularly on foreign policy,
Rothwell reexamines the central episodes in Eden's career to provide
a new picture of Eden the statesman. Eden's precise views on the
appeasement of the fascist dictators and his policy towards the
Soviet Union in the 1930s; the tangled circumstances of his
resignations in 1938 and 1957; his twenty-year long, tension-ridden
relationship with Churchill; his actions as Foreign Secretary during
the foreign policy crisis from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955;
and the domestic as well as foreign policy aspects of his brief
premiership; all receive important new interpretations. Eden's name
became inextricably linked to Suez, and Rothwell provides an
important reassessment of Eden's role in this pivotal crisis. He
gives overdue attention to the wider Middle East situation, and
explains Eden's failure to manage the Anglo-American relationship in
the crisis in terms of his life-long lack of warmth for the United
States, which verged at times on anti-Americanism. Eden remains a
central figure in twentieth century international politics, and all
those interested in international history as well students of
international relations, will find Rothwell's new political biography
compelling reading.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-293) and index.
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