John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while many ...
Bew rightly makes much of Attlee’s hitherto-underexplored (indeed, almost unknown) inner life, especially his reading of the great English poets such as John Milton, William Blake, Percy Bysshe ...