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Of Men and Memories - Neville Chamberlain: Pioneering and Reform, 1869–1929. By David Dilks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xv + 645. $29.95 (cloth). - Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics. By David Dutton. Bolton: Ross Anderson, 1985. Pp. ix + 373. £14.95 (cloth). - Lloyd George: From Peace to War, 1912–1916. By John Grigg. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. 527. - Attlee. By Kenneth Harris. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1982. Pp. ix + 630. $27.50 (cloth). - A Man and an Institution: Sir Maurice Hankey, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Custody of Cabinet Secrecy. By John F. Naylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xi + 419. $59.50 (cloth). - Hugh Dalton. By Ben Pimlott. London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Pp. 731.

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Kirk Willis
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 352 - 358
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