MR BALFOUR'S POODLE
Written by Roy Jenkins
Published by Collins
in 1968
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MR BALFOUR'S POODLE
Written by Roy Jenkins.
Stock no. 1330814
1968.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
An account of the struggle between the House of Lords and the Government of Mr Asquith. Grey mottled cloth with gilt title to spine. 320 pages. B/w plates. Minimal shelf wear to spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock and endpapers. Dustwrapper is lightly edge worn, foxed on rear panel, small mark to top edge of front panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Author's Foreword
- I The Liberal Triumph
- II The New Government and the Lords
- III Ploughing the Sands
- IV The People's Budget
- V To Reject or not to Reject
- VI The Verdict of the Nation
- VII The Beginnings of the Parliament Bill
- VIII The Reply of the Peers
- IX The Attempt at Compromise
- X The King and then the People
- XI The Peers Persist
- XII The Disunion of the Unionists
- XIII The Issue Resolved
- XIV Epilogue
- Appendices
- Index