New Releases by Roy Jenkins

Dirt Bike Ike 3 is the 3rd book in the trilogy about a teenage boy forming and capturing his dream to become a champion Motocross racer. He faces many challenges including: school struggles (socially and academically), financially (his mom is raising him), and overcoming loss and tragedy. A really fast girl and her dad move into the little Louisiana town where Ike lives and helps form a racing team. Also on the team is a former junkyard dealer who now has a motorcycle dealership and his head mechanic, a former marine sniper. Both of these men are tough on Ike but serve as the mentors he needs. There are enemies that try to take down his racing team. Led by a crooked judge and his family this crime ring forms the mystery that Ike and his team must solve before he can achieve his championship. The readers are entertained and inspired to follow their own path to fulfill their purpose. Ike learns there is more to becoming a champion than winning a few races and more to becoming a man than being tough. He also discovers his greatest fear and what happened to his dad and makes peace with both.

Jenkins'' account of the constitutional struggle between the Liberal government of the early twentieth century and the House of Lords. The battle started with the introduction of the People''s Budget of 1909 and continued through two general elections until 1911 when the Lords accepted the Parliament bill.

First published in 1964, Asquith was one of the most crucial and controversial of modern Prime Ministers. He was opposed with a bitterness and a violence that English politicians have not subsequently known, yet he enjoyed eight and a half years of unbroken power, and for at least the first six years of these he presided with an easy authority over the most talented government of this century. The issues which he confronted were momentous – Peers v. People, Ireland, and the Great War. Bringing to bear exceptional knowledge, judgement, insight and tolerance, he survived them all. His fall seemed therefore all the more shocking.

In Portraits and Miniatures, Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intelligence and elegant prose to subjects ranging from literature and political history to wine and croquet. Long experience in both Houses of Parliament and as President of the European Commission has given him unparalleled insight into political figures such as R. A. Butler, Aneurin Bevan, Konrad Adenauer, and de Gaulle. A varied selection of essays, Portraits and Miniatures is fascinating, witty, and endlessly entertaining.

In his time, Harry S. Truman was one of the most under-rated presidents of the twentieth century. Succeeding the charismatic Roosevelt, he was often seen as an uninspiring leader, a poor diplomat and a fumbling politician. He was the first man to authorise the use of nuclear weapons, and was in office at the time when the multiplicity of hopes which arose at the end of the Second World War were inevitably disappointed. Nothing could be further from Roy Jenkins'' view of him. This is the first biography of Truman to be written by an author with anything approaching the subject''s own range of political experience, and Roy Jenkins brings to this book a quality of appreciation of Truman''s political skills which has not been seen before. It is also the first biography to be written by a British author, giving it a new objectivity on the international affairs which occupied so much of Truman''s presidency and by which he must be judged.

Sir Charles Dilke was born in 1843 and died in 1911. His career is one of the mysteries and tragedies of nineteenth-century history. In the summer of 1885 he was the youngest man in the outgoing cabinet and Gladstone''s most likely successor as leader of the Liberal Party. But his great expectations were shattered when in July 1885 Donald Crawford, a Liberal candidate, began divorce proceedings against his twenty-two-year-old wife, citing Dilke as co-respondent. There were two hearings, during the second of which Mrs Crawford made the most sensational allegations and in the end Dilke lost. He maintained his innocence to his dying day and despite his public disgrace there were many who believed him. First published in 1958, Dilke is a story with a climax as exciting as it is mysterious and which bears continuing relevance to the private lives of public figures.

First published in 1989, this diary provides the background to two vital issues: our relations with the European Community and the state of politics in Britain. Few people are better qualified to know how we arrived where we are than Roy Jenkins. During the period of this diary he was President of the European Commission. The diary provides a picture of the day-to-day life of the head of an international organization, of the conflicting pressures and grinding routine, of the importance of personal relationships with world leaders such as Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d''Estaing, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt, Jean Monnet and Jimmy Carter. In addition to the political chronicle we have frank and sometimes unguarded revelations about the author, his tastes and preoccupations, from which emerges a man more imbued with public passion, more eccentric and with a more varied private life than many readers may expect. His subtle perception of people is revealed in brilliant portraits of, for example, Schmidt, pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet and yet notably constructive, and Giscard d''Estaing, highly intelligent but with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous. For those concerned with the way the world is developing and the impact of a civilized and essentially private personality on public events, European Diary is compulsory reading.

First published in 1984, this is the first biography of Stanley Baldwin for more than ten years, although there had been four in the preceding decade. This is strange, for Baldwin has recently begun to swim back into fashion. In part this is a function of growing nostalgia for his period of power, the 1920s and 1930s. Still more, however, it is " because Mrs Thatcher''s brand of Conservative leadership has made him an object of contrasting interest in a way that Harold Macmillan''s or Edward Heath''s never did. When a new exponent of an alternative style temporarily achieves notice, it is now frequently suggested that he might be a new Baldwin. This reappraisal is therefore appropriately timed. It is written by a skilled political biographer, from a non-Conservative, although not personally unsympathetic, standpoint. Baldwin was born in 1867, the son of a rich Worcestershire ironmaster, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He then worked in the family business for twenty years. Although the most self-conscious countryman amongst British Prime Ministers of the past hundred years or more, he was not a country squire and never owned more than a few acres of land. He did not enter the House of Commons until he was forty, and was not even a junior minister until the threshold of fifty. Less than six years later, in 1923, he became Prime Minister and dominated British politics for the next fifteen years - the only man of this century to hold the highest office three times.

A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his standing, and of his successors, there are so far none. In acute, stylish prose, Roy Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and intricacies of FDR''s character. He was a skilled politician with astounding flexibility; he oversaw an incomparable mobilization of American industrial and military effort; and, all the while, he aroused great loyalty and dazzled those around him with his personal charm. Despite several setbacks and one apparent catastrophe, his life was buoyed by the influence of Eleanor, who was not only a wife but an adviser and one of the twentieth century''s greatest political reformers. Nearly complete before Jenkins''s death in January 2003, this volume was finished by historian Richard Neustadt.

Roy Jenkins follows up Churchill with a book of a very different shape; short and semi-autobiographical, but also full of the wit and erudition which made that book such a success. Each of the twelve cities are described with a mixture of architectural interest, topographical insight, and personal anecdote. Jenkins has three British cities: Cardiff, Birmingham and Glasgow. Further afield there is Paris, Brussels, Bonn, Berlin, Naples and Barcelona. From Lord Jenkins'' over a hundred visits to North America there emerge highly personal recollections of New York and Chicago. Dublin, so near to home and yet so distant, makes up the dozen. Twelve Cities is a fascinating and sparkling collection from one of our very finest writers.

Provides a glimpse into the extraordinary life of Britain''s greatest prime minister, recreating his many accomplishments, trials, and tribulations throughout his life that contributed to his success.

Lord Jenkins tells the story of the rise and fall of the British Liberal party under prime ministers Gladstone, Churchill, Asquith, and Lloyd George and explores the place of current British Prime Minister Tony Blair in this tradition.

This text provides a fascinating insight into the heart of politics over the last two hundred years and furthers our understanding of one of the most significant political roles in British government.

The Rt. Hon. Lord Jenkins, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, examines the history of the selection and electoral process of the office of Chancellor of the University of Oxford from the 18th century to 1960 and assesses the changes in the role and powers of the Chancellor, including those during his own period of office. He concludes with some reflections on the relationship between the University and city of Oxford itself, and the continuing efforts to balance the needs of the city with that of maintaining the University as an academic institution of worldwide importance.

Den tidligere labour- og SDP-politiker Roy Jenkins'' (f. 1920) erindringer om barndommen, tiden som indenrigs- og finansminister samt perioden som formand for EF-Kommissionen

This lecture surveys recent developments in the Europe of the community, gives a brief history of the EMS, discusses the case of Germany in the light of the liberalization of Eastern Europe, and ends with the author''s predictions for the single market and Britain''s role in the EC.

In these three crisp lectures delivered at Yale at the end of 1971, Roy Jenkins traces America''s rise to indisputable leadership among the great powers in the years 1917-63, interprets Britian''s changing perspectives since the end of World War Il, and reflects on the problems now faced by the United States as it adjusts to a world role as first among equals.