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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- 1 Anatomy of a Victorian Family
- 2 Education for Public Service
- 3 Coping with Lloyd George
- 4 WWI: Under Cover at Wellington House
- 5 Influential Head of 'Enfeebled' Mines Department
- 6 'Quis Custodiet?' â Surtax, Syntax and Scandal
- 7 Mine Owners' Bogy Man
- 8 WWII: Preparing for London's Civil Defence
- 9 WWII: Leading London through the Blitz
- 10 Post-war Reconstruction
- 11 Abolishing Capital Punishment
- 12 Plain Words
- 13 Revising Fowler's Modern English Usage
- 14 'A Last Retrospect'
- Appendix 1: Governments and Prime Ministers 1900â1970
- Appendix 2: Condensed Biographies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index