Table of Contents
Preface 1
Part 1 Prologue
1 'The Old Rogue' 5
2 'Balliol Made Me, Balliol Fed Me' 20
3 'I Was Very Frightened' 32
4 'I do Hope It Is Alright' 47
5 'I Had Never Been To Tees-side' 59
6 'Why Did You Ever Wake Me?' 73
Part 2 The First Act
7 'Very Much the Minister Nowadays' 93
8 Greeks, Romans and Frenchmen 109
9 'A Marriage Has Been Arranged' 129
10 'People Get Very Peculiar After a Time' 153
Part 3 Waiting in the Wings
11 A Stranger at Home 179
12 'This New Opportunity' 191
13 'Shall I Ever Be Foreign Secretary?' 206
14 Ambition 224
15 'We Must Make Use of Israel' 241
16 'The Last Gasp of a Declining Power' 258
Part 4 Centre Stage
17 The Tory Resurrection 279
18 'You Almost Feel Yourself a Statesman' 298
19 The Prime Minister 318
20 'All the Political Domestic Mileage He Can Get' 323
21 'The Tories Must Wake Up' 336
22 Le Double Jeu 351
23 Enter JFK 372
24 'I am Ageing' 387
25 'They Don't Really Smile' 401
26 'We've Got To Do Something for Harold' 414
27 'Butler Would Be Fatal' 433
Part 5 The Last Act
28 The End of the Day 457
Epilogue 469
Notes 479
Note on Sources 511
Select Bibliography 512
Acknowledgements 518
Index 520