Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction: You Haven't Much Time! -- Chapter One: Born to Elections -- Chapter Two: Gung-Ho for War -- Chapter Three: In the Absence of Cricket -- Chapter Four: Surveying America -- Chapter Five: Into the Family Trade -- Chapter Six: Telly Don -- Chapter Seven: A Speedometer Type Device -- Chapter Eight: Gilded Year in Georgetown -- Chapter Nine: Buccaneering Butlers -- Chapter Ten: College Man -- Chapter Eleven: The Love of His Life -- Chapter Twelve: Which Is Butler? Which Is Stokes? -- Chapter Thirteen: An English Don Abroad -- Chapter Fourteen: Academic Entrepreneur -- Chapter Fifteen: Consensus Pinko -- Chapter Sixteen: The Rector's Husband -- Chapter Seventeen: The Rules Overturned -- Conclusion: A Life to the Full -- Appendix: From Academic Aristocracy -- The Butler Family Tree -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Plates -- Copyright -- Endpapers
Michael Crick tells the extraordinary story of the man who put the swing into British politics. Sir David Butler pioneered the science of elections, bringing the voting figures to life on national television. An Oxford boffin who has publicly analysed every British general election since the war, Butler has done more than anyone to transform TV coverage of British elections
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