Men and Power 1917-1918 (1956) By Lord Beaverbrook
 
Beaverbrook's 1917-1918 memoirs, detailing the struggle for peace and power that preceded at Westminster as the fighting on the Flanders battlefields moved to its climax.
 
 This set of memoirs of Max Aitken,1st. Baron Beaverbrook, contains a series of penetrating portraits of the great figures encountered by Beaverbrook based on his close contact with them. It includes a particularly astute chapter on "The Ulster Pirate", Edward Carson.
 
These memoirs of Lord Beaverbrook combine historic importance with intense human interest" (from the back cover). William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB (25 May 1879 9 June 1964), generally known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the First World War he ran the Canadian Records office in London, and played a role in the removal of H. H. Asquith as prime minister in 1916. The resulting coalition government (with David Lloyd George as prime minister and Bonar Law as Chancellor of the Exchequer) rewarded Aitken with a peerage and, briefly, a Cabinet post as Minister of Information.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
448 pages
In Good Condition