John Bew.
JOHN BEW
CITIZEN CLEM: A BIOGRAPHY OF ATTLEE (2016)
Winner of the 2017 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee is unashamedly admiring. He sees Attlee not as a person of modest talents in the shadow of Churchill, but as a great prime minister whose achievements transformed post-war Britain.
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John Bew has an academic family, his father Paul Bew being Professor Irish Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, and his wife Greta Jones bing a history professor at the University of Ulster. Bew took his degree in history at Cambridge, where he stayed on as lecturer in Modern British History. He is currently (2024) Professor in History and Foreign Policy at King’s College London.
