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Title: Readable but lacks drama and context
Review: Callaghan was in some ways a pivotal political figure. He not only lead the Labour party to a critical defeat which not only saw the conservatives dominate Britain for a record period but his loss of office led to the destruction of everything he stood for. That is the union movement, Britain's place as a manufacturing nation and the notion of the labour party being a working class movement.The writer of the book has been absorbed by Callaghan's career and has come to like him (as did most of the British Electorate). His biography thus lacks a sense of the tragedy of Callaghan's life and the failure of his Prime Minister Ship and the desolation which resulted.Instead we get a picture of a man on the right of the labour movement who was a decent man and tried in his political career to stand for what he thought was right.A readable biography which looks to much at the man and perhaps not enough at the political context.
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