The Cancelled Prime Minister

‘Reid is a lively and likeable biographer … interested in MacDonald the man: his diaries, letters and poems.’ * <b><i>The Telegraph</i></b> * 'Reid acknowledges that MacDonald's achievements on the domestic front were rather meagre ... and quite rightly emphasises the importance of MacDonald's activist wife Margaret, whom he adored and from whose death from sepsis aged 41 he never truly recovered.' * <b><I>The Scotsman</I></b> * 'Few politicians have climbed as high from as low a start as Labour's first Prime Minister. Vilified for almost a century, this reappraisal is long overdue.' * <b>David Robinson, former literary editor, <i>The Scotsman</i></b> * 'With his fresh study of that most denounced of Prime Ministers, Ramsay Macdonald, Walter Reid adds another interesting biography to stand alongside his books on Neville Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill’s involvement with India.' * <b>John Hussey, award-winning author of <i>Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815</i></b> * 'Walter Reid opens a window on a giant of his time. Reid portrays a man driven by principle. Party politics were a secondary consideration when the rebasing of the economy demanded a scale of change unacceptable to the Labour Party which he had helped to establish. This beautifully written book puts Ramsay McDonald in his rightful place in the political history of the UK.' * <b>Robert Lyman, co-author of <i>Korea: War Without End</i></b> *