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The Strange Death of Liberal England
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1935
- Pages
- Pages 1100
The old story says the Great War killed Liberal England. Dangerfield begins instead with the death of Edward VII in the spring of 1910 and insists the body was already cooling: that in the four bright years before Sarajevo, the party that had given Britain the old age pension and national insurance was pulled apart from three directions at once.
For Liberalism, after all, implies rather more than a political creed or an economic philosophy; it is a profoundly conscience-stricken state of mind.
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