Draws on previously inaccessible family archives to penetrate the anonymity and public reticence of one of Britain's great twentieth century civil servants. Gowers was highly influential in public policy throughout his long civil service career, which began in 1903 and culminated in running London's civil defence throughout the Second World War. INDICE: Preface - Anatomy of a Victorian Family - Education for Public Service - Coping with Lloyd George - WW1: Under Cover at Wellington House - Influential Head of 'Enfeebled' Mines Department - Quis Custodiet? b Surtax, Syntaxand Scandal - Mine Owners' Bogy Man - WW2: Preparing for London's Civil Defence - WW2: Leading London through the Blitz - Postwar Reconstruction - Abolishing Capital Punishment - Plain Words - Revising Fowler - 'A Last Retrospect'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58025-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 23/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés