A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing
Review of Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain, by John Bew (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017).
… short of revolutionary, including the creation of the National Health Service and the granting of independence to … leader. He was neither a leftist ideologue nor a trade unionist. The Oxford-educated scion of a middle-class … as prime minister, Attlee was forced to respond to the international crises of the early Cold War years. He attempted to …