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100	1		_aLee, Christopher, _eauthor. _9119624
245	1	0	_aCarrington : _ban honourable man / _cChristopher Lee.
264		1	_aLondon : _bViking, an imprint of Penguin Books, _c2018.
300			_axiii, 559 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_a1. Pitt's banker -- 2. Uncle Charlie -- 3. Family schism -- 4. Carrington MC -- 5. Churchill's shoot -- 6. A green Rolls-Royce -- 7. First Lord -- 8. Lords reformer -- 9. The road to Bloody Sunday -- 10. Musical chairs -- 11. Wilderness -- 12. Thatcher -- 13. The Falklands -- 14. South Ken to Brussels -- 15. The former Yugoslavia -- 16. A tale of two trees.
520			_a"Lord Carrington was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary when the Argentinians invaded the Falklands in 1982. Absent in Israel on the eve of the invasion, he promptly resigned since it was, he said, a point of honour. He is seen by many today as the last of his breed in politics, an honourable man committed to public service. The descendant of a famous banking family, Carrington served as a minister in every Conservative government from Churchill to Thatcher. In this full biography, authorised but not read by the subject, author of This Sceptred Isle Christopher Lee offers a fascinating portrait of a Tory icon whose career is a window into post-war British politics and life as a politician and diplomat. He could be viewed as a typical Tory grandee, yet he disliked the Party, claiming late in his life that he was no longer a member, and could be fiercely independent. And there were recurring oddities in his career. He was forced to offer his resignation to Churchill for bad judgement over the Crichel Down Affair. As Navy Minister he was caught in the glare of a spy ring, and, though Defence Secretary, kept out of the loop of the military operation which culminated in Bloody Sunday. Margaret Thatcher said there was something innately reassuring walking into a room where Carrington stood. Was this a barbed compliment? Did he in fact lack the steel required of a modern politician? He certainly represents a bygone era, as this vivid and expert biography shows." -- _cTaken from dust jacket.
600	1	0	_aCarrington, Peter Alexander Rupert, _c6th Baron Carrington _961265
610	1	0	_94027 _aGreat Britain. _bParliament. _bHouse of Lords _xBiography
650		0	_aStatesmen _zGreat Britain _947118 _xBiography.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y20th century. _916239
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xForeign relations _y20th century. _915762
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