Leadership and the Labour Party: Narrative and Performance
In: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
In: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership Ser.
Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Political Leadership, Rhetoric, and Culture: Aristotle Good, Max Weber Bad -- Rationale of the Book -- Performing the Party -- The Conditions of Performance and Persona -- The Centrality of Ethos -- Reluctant Leaders, Bad Lessons -- The Party's Story -- The Leader's Story -- Losing Both Voice and an Election -- Narrative and the 'Personalized Political' -- Theoretical Considerations -- Institutions, Culture, and Performance -- Drama and Memory -- Aristotle -- Charisma -- Aristotle Again -- Narrative and Performance -- Chapter 2: Leadership Lessons from the Past -- Keir Hardie 1906-1908 -- Ramsay MacDonald 1922-1931 -- Arthur Henderson 1931-1932 -- George Lansbury 1932-1935 -- Clement Attlee 1935-1955 -- Hugh Gaitskell 1955-1963 -- Harold Wilson 1963-1976 -- Jim Callaghan 1976-1980 -- Michael Foot 1980-1983 -- Neil Kinnock 1983-1992 -- John Smith 1992-1994 -- Tony Blair 1994-2007 -- Gordon Brown 2007-2010 -- Not Wanting the Leadership -- 'Fatal Flaws' and 'Downfall' -- Responsibility When in Power -- Circumscribing the Leader's Power -- Being 'In or Out of Touch' -- Localism -- Leading the Cabinet/Shadow Cabinet -- Changing Communication Techniques -- Leadership and Conference -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Arc of Rhetoric and the Leader as Author -- How to Tell a Story -- Story and Plot -- Policy Review -- The Policy Review's Counter Narrative: Blue Labour -- The Oxford London Seminars -- One Nation, Two Authors -- One Nation, One Author -- Let the Word Go Forth -- Analysis: Story and Plot -- The Critics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Rhetoric and Performance: Miliband's Finest Hour (Sixty-Four Minutes and Forty-Seven Seconds, in fact) -- Theoretical Context: Rhetoric, Persona, and Celebrity -- 'Received Persona': And Miliband's 2012 Performance