Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats :
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[Book]
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unfinished business /
First Statement of Responsibility
Matt Cole
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
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Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
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2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 233 p., [10] p. of plates :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-226) and index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: unfinished business offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality
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Richard Wainwright is central to the story of the Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and the state of its prospects as the Liberal Democrat Party. At the same time this book is a parable of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and who wants to follow their convictions at the highest level. Book jacket
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Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but campaigned against poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, and gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in a Labour landslide. He played key roles in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Liberal Democrats; he travelled the world but represented a unique Yorkshire constituency which reflected his pride and hope for society; and whilst he gave his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in the Lords
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Wainwright, Richard,1918-2003
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Liberal Democrats (Great Britain)
Liberal Party (Great Britain)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Legislators-- Great Britain, Biography
Liberalism-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century