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And Fortune Fled

David Lloyd George, the First Democratic Statesman, 1916-1922

by Michael Graham Fry (Author)
©2011 Monographs XVIII, 875 Pages

Summary

The First World War was the defining event of the twentieth century and the Paris Peace Conference the most important such conference. The four years following the war helped determine whether the world would find peace or face another war. In December 1916 David Lloyd George became Prime Minister of Britain and came to dominate wartime diplomacy and postwar international affairs. Although he resigned in October 1922 and never held high office again, he was the pre-eminent liberal statesman of the twentieth century. Arguably Lloyd George was the equal of Winston Churchill as a war leader and indisputably superior as a creative, ingenious, and visionary statesman.

Details

Pages
XVIII, 875
Year
2011
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820474069
Language
English
Keywords
David Lloyd George Lloyd George, David Biographie 1916-1922 David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Hardin Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Winston Churchill Arthur Balfour George Curzon
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. XVIII, 875 pp., num. ill.

Biographical notes

Michael Graham Fry (Author)

Michael Graham Fry is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Southern California and was a Fellow of the Royal History Society, United Kingdom. He received his PhD in international history from University of London. Fry has written and edited nine books, contributed to several monographs, and published widely in journals in Britain, Canada, France, Israel, and the United States. The review in The Times Literary Supplement of his first book, Lloyd George and Foreign Policy: The Education of a Statesman, 1890-1916, described it as the seminal work, the point of departure for all other scholars. And Fortune Fled completes his study of Lloyd George, foreign policy, and international relations.

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