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John Grigg
Lloyd George: The People's Champion, sequel to John Grigg's enthusiastically praised The Young Lloyd George, describes the career of David Lloyd George from 1902 to 1911, its most exciting and fruitful phase before the outbreak of the First World War. In it he is seen evolving from the liveliest of Opposition back-benchers to the most dynamic and controversial member of a great Liberal government.
The book contains much important new information, and at many points John Grigg re-assesses Lloyd George's conduct and motives to strongly challenge many fashionable assumptions. John Grigg shows that Lloyd George could, on occasion, be playing the demagogue when he was thought to be acting form conviction, but that more often his supposed demagoguery was a powerful and necessary response to the partisan fury of his opponents. Between 1902 and 1911 he made a succession of brilliant speeches which are quoted extensively and to good effect. The book's central drama is the political and constitutional conflict surrounding Lloyd George's 1909 Budget, but there are many fascinating sub-plots, including his difficulties with both the suffragettes and with one or two individual women.
The portrait as a whole is very sympathetic to Lloyd George, without being unduly flattering. It gives a vivid and fair impression of him in relation to his leading contemporaries, and as an outstanding figure of the Edwardian age.
March 11, 1991 by Methuen Publishing Ltd
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