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The Macmillans
Richard Davenport-Hines

The Macmillans

Heinemann (1992)
9780434175024
| Hardcover
370 pages | 160 x 239 mm | eng English
Dewey 941.0820922
LC Classification DA566.9.M33 .D38 1992

Subject

  • Great Britain - Genealogy
  • Prime Ministers - Biography - Great Britain

Plot

This is an outline of the history of the Macmillan family, its rise, triumphs and misfortunes. The core of the book is the personality and career of Harold Macmillan, but his achievements and tribulations are seen in the context of his family life. Coming from a peasant background, two Macmillan brothers founded one of the great publishing houses in Victorian a multi-million-pound business which their descendants still control in the 1990s. This is more than a family story, it is a book about class, power and the destructive personal traits that pass from generation to generation.

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