What difference did she make?
Eric Hobsbawm
- A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Thatcher by Peter Clarke
Hamish Hamilton, 334 pp, £17.99, April 1991, ISBN 0 241 13005 0 - The Quiet Rise of John Major by Edward Pearce
Weidenfeld, 177 pp, £14.99, April 1991, ISBN 0 297 81208 4
The ‘question ot leadership’ which is the subject of both these books is the question of how much difference leadership in politics can make. Contrary to what is held by believers in the cult of personality, who range from newspaper editors to political historians, it may make very little difference. As John Kenneth Galbraith has observed, changing the top man in important business corporation rarely affects the price of their shares on the market.
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