{"product_id":"the-cancelled-prime-minister-walter-reid-9781805265306","title":"The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald","description":"Ramsay MacDonald was born an illegitimate child in north-east Scotland. Leaving school at fourteen, he seemed bound to follow in his ploughman father's footsteps. Instead, he would become the UK's first Labour Prime Minister--a friend of George V and a global political star. How did he get there from his Highland bothy? Why has he been erased from political memory? And how did this leftist parliamentarian end up leading a Conservative-dominated National Government? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMacDonald's was an elusive, Celtic personality, easier to criticize than to understand. Historian Walter Reid demystifies this fascinating politician, dismissing the common charge of treacherous ambition and tracing MacDonald's personal odyssey--including half a life grieving his wife Margaret, a remarkable feminist and social reformer lost young to blood poisoning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistory has been unkind to MacDonald, and most often written with politically hostile pens. Drawing extensively on his private diaries, this biography restores a towering figure to his rightful historical place, and reveals his full complexity--a man not without faults, but able and honorable, with deep and widespread interests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter Reid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 180526530X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805265306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurst \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Walter Reid","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965560733951,"sku":"9781805265306","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae8e7a90-ecb1-4417-8f9d-763a3893de31.jpg?v=1767281371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cancelled-prime-minister-walter-reid-9781805265306","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}