Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour av Professor Chris (Nottingham University UK) Wrigley

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<p>Lloyd George was the 'Man Who Won The War', and a key figure in seeking to resolve the issues of peace. These years were marked by labour unrest, unemployment and strife.<br/>The way in which his post-war coalition government handled the unprecedented upsurge of labour unrest set much of the tone for the inter-war years. This book shows how the leading radical and practical reformer of British politics - who always believed in a juster society - was an undoctrinaire man and a reconciler of conflicts but who somehow became associated with reactionary forces, both in industrial relations, in intervention in bolshevik Russia, and in Irish policy.  Churchill said of Lloyd George: “Much of his work abides, some of it will grow greatly in the future, and those who come after him will find the pillars of his life’s toil upstanding, massive, and indestructible.” He spoke of his “power of living in the present without taking short views.”  Wri