by Alex Danchev
If Britain were a republic, it was said, Oliver Franks would have to be president: no one else would do. Oliver Franks: Founding Father is the first biography of this remarkable man, written by a leading historian and specialist in international relations. Things happened to Oliver Franks. An exceedingly deliberate man, he was, so to say, accident-prone. He did not seek his various careers of don, mandarin, diplomat, banker, provost, pillar of state. They sought him. He did not collect committees, as some men do. They collected him. He did not pine for public recognition - he was the very picture of the magnanimous man. Recognition came none the less. Franks lived a long life and a good one. A moral philosopher by training and inclination, he was thrust into a leading role in transforming events in the mid-twentieth century: supplying the war against Hitler, securing the post-war recovery of Europe, negotiating the Atlantic alliance - all the while tending that delicate growth, the Ang
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Alex Popa
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