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Once a member of the late Hugh Gaitskell's "Hampstead set" of Laborite intellectuals, he has written biographies of Herbert Asquith, Clement Attlee and Sir Charles Dilke, the Victorian politician whose career was ruined by scandal. Jenkins appeals to a wide assortment of people, including businessmen, who regard him as a seasoned administrator, and members of London's exclusive clubs, who approve of his elegant tastes for good claret and cozy dinners...
Through that distant and serene period, Churchill moved with the insistent and often rude force of a man in a hurry to reach command. "We are all worms," he told Violet Asquith, the Prime Minister's daughter, "but I do believe I am a glowworm...
...free trader-and bolted to the Liberal opposition. The following year, the Liberals were in power. They regarded their new convert with mixed feelings; no one knew whom Winnie would attack next-the Tories, his own Prime Minister or the King. "Winston thinks with his mouth," wrote Asquith testily...
...committee on Oriental art of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The National Art Gallery of Taiwan has a standing offer of an assistant curatorship; and last week Oxford University's Balliol College-the politicians' prep that produced Herbert Asquith, Harold Macmillan, Tory Leader Ted Heath, Defense Minister Denis Healey, and such other luminaries as Arnold Toynbee, Julian Huxley, Graham Greene and King Olaf of Norway-invited the Virginia-born Brahmin to lecture on American politics during the fall Michaelmas term. He is, in short, the alter ego of Pennsylvania...
...months since Sir Winston Churchill died, books about him have been written by his friend Lady Asquith, his valet Roy Howells, and Son Randolph, who is putting the finishing touches on the "official" family biography. None of them is likely to reveal as much detail-or raise such a storm -as the memoirs of Lord Moran of Manton. Lord Moran was Churchill's doctor...