The Macmillan years, 1957-1963 : the emerging truth /
"The special relationship with America was destroyed by Eden's Suez adventure, and Macmillan never succeeded in restoring it fully. His memoirs gloss over the bitter and humiliating disputes with Eisenhower and Kennedy, both of whom were adamantly opposed to any British independent nuclear...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
John Murray,
©1995.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents |
| Summary: | "The special relationship with America was destroyed by Eden's Suez adventure, and Macmillan never succeeded in restoring it fully. His memoirs gloss over the bitter and humiliating disputes with Eisenhower and Kennedy, both of whom were adamantly opposed to any British independent nuclear deterrent. There were also continuing divisions over the Far East. And while nothing can detract from Macmillan's sterling work over the rapprochement between Khrushchev and Kennedy which produced the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, his claim that his meeting with Kennedy at Birchgrove in 1963 was a triumphant meeting of minds by two statesmen is fiction. At the time, Kennedy thought both Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary 'fuddyduddy' and was convinced that the Profumo scandal would bring Macmillan down." "The Government's strange behaviour in the face of that crisis and of Macmillan's illness brings the book to a memorable conclusion. Richard Lamb's remarkable research, and interviews with key figures of the time, remove many myths and present for the first time an unbiased view of Macmillan's years in office."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 545 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-518) and index. |
| ISBN: | 071955392X 9780719553929 |