The Prime Minister: the office and its holders since 1945

Part 1 Prelude: the platonic idea and the constitutional deal continuity and cottage pie. Part 2 The premiership: the double-headed nation organized by history - the premiership before 1945 beyond any mortal? the stretching of the premiership since 1945 where the buck stops - premiers, cabinets and nuclear war planning since 1945. Part 3 The prime ministers: a sense of architectronics - Clement Atlee, 1945-51 in history lie all the secrets - Winston Churchill, 1951-55 the Colonel and the drawing room - Anthony Eden, 1955-57 quiet, calm deliberation - Harold Macmillan, 1957-63 country values - Alec Douglas-Home, 1963-64 centre forward - Harold Wilson, 1964-70 the somersaulting modernizer - Edward Heath, 1970-74 centre half - Harold Wilson, 1974-76 the sea-changer - James Callaghan, 1976-79 a tigress surrounded by hamsters - Margaret Thatcher, 1979-90 the solo-coalitionist - John Major, 1990-97 command and control - Tony Blair, 1997-. Part 4 Coda: the premier league - the inevitability of disappointment towards a new specification - premiership for the 21st century.