Like many another middle-class British family back in the ’30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem’s duties permitted, a trim ...
Clement Attlee was the most consistently underestimated politician of modern times. Bald, mustachioed, unassuming, quiet, as averse to grandiloquence and grandstanding as Churchill was addicted to ...
John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while many ...