Description: Malcolm MacDonald (1901-1981) played a central role in the decolonization of the British Empire. The son of Britain's first Socialist prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, Malcolm soon emerged from his father's shadow to take a crucial political and diplomatic part in the shaping of the Commonwealth. In this first biography of a highly unusual public figure, Clyde Sanger gives a full account of both MacDonald's working life, from early successes in Ireland to a crashing failure over Palestine, and his complex private life.
Review Quotes: "Malcolm MacDonald sheds light on the individual and the major events in which he played so central a role ... Sanger makes it perfectly clear that one cannot understand British policy in Asia and Africa after World War II if one does not understand how British policy evolved in the 1930s." Richard Stubbs, Political Science, McMaster University.