Alan
Bullock was born in 1914. Educated at Bradford Grammar School and
Wadham College, Oxford,
he published his biography of Adolf Hitler,
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny in
1952.
Bullock
was Master of St. Catherine's College (1960-80) and Vice-Chancellor
of Oxford (1969-73). He was chairman of the Committee on Reading and
Other Uses of English Language (1972-74) that resulted in the publication
of the report A Language of Life
(1975).
Other
books by Bullock include The Liberal Tradition
(1956), The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin
(1960), Faces of Europe (1980),
The Humanist Tradition in the West
(1985), Has History a Future?
(1987), Hitler and Stalin: Parrallel Lives
(1991) and Building Jerusalem
(2000).
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Denis Healey, The Time of My Life
(1989)
Of all my contemporaries at Bradford, I most admired Alan Bullock,
who later wrote the biography of Ernest Bevin, became the Vice-Chancellor
of Oxford University, and produced the Bullock Report on industrial
democracy. He was two years older than I, and won the Senior Essay
Prize of the National Book Council in 1930, the same year as I won
the Junior Essay Prize. His father was a Unitarian minister and leader
of the city's Literary Society. Alan had a range of knowledge and
interests unique in our school; he seemed equally familiar with Wagner's
letters and Joyce's Ulysses. He has remained a friend throughout the
years, the breadth of his wisdom and humanity steadily growing with
time.
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