Making Reputations

'The contributions are never less than absorbing...'Trevor Russell, Public Servant, 7th October 2005

Julie Gottlieb is Lecturer in History at University of Sheffield. She is author of 'Feminine Fascism' and co-author, with Thomas P. Linehan, of 'The Culture of Fascism' (both I.B. Tauris). Richard Toye is Lecturer in History at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

List of Illustrations vii Contributors viii Introduction. Richard Toye and Julie Gottlieb 1 Constructing Life Stories. Peter Marsh 5 Gladstonian Liberalism and the rehabilitation of Robert Lowe, 1866-1868. Kristin Zimmerman 15 Squiff, Lliar George, and The McKennae: The unpersuasive politics of personality in the Asquith coalition, 1915-16. Martin Farr 29 Charismatic leadership, c. 1870-1914: A comparative European Perspective. Henk te Velde 42 An exemplary communist life? Harry Pollitts Serving My Time in comparative perspective. Kevin Morgan 56 A Mosleyite Life Stranger than Fiction: The Making and Remaking of Olive Hawks. Julie Gottlieb 70 Winston Churchill and the Men of Destiny: Leadership and the role of the Prime Minister in wartime feature films. Jo Fox 92 Let us go forward together: Clementine Churchill and the role of the personality in wartime Britain. Helen Jones 109 The trials of a biography: Roy Harrods Life of John Maynard Keynes reconsidered. Richard Toye 123 Our Amazonian Colleague: Edith Summerskills problematic reputation. Penny Summerfield 135 Michael Foot as Labour leader: the uses of the past. Paul Corthorn 151 I dont think of myself as the first woman Prime Minister: Gender, Identity and Image in Margaret Thatchers Career. Anneke Ribberink 166 New Labour and The Sun, 1994-97. Sam Gallagher 180 Notes 198 Index 234