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020 _a978-0-330-41899-7
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100 _aARCHER, JEFFREY
245 _aFIRST AMONG EQUALS
260 _aLONDON
_bPAN BOOKS
_c1984
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520 _aFirst Among Equals is a 1984 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer,[1] which follows the careers and personal lives of four fictional British politicians (Simon Kerslake, MP for Coventry Central and later Pucklebridge; Charles Seymour, MP for Sussex Downs; Raymond Gould, MP for Leeds North; and Andrew Fraser, MP for Edinburgh Carlton) from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister. Several situations in the novel are drawn from Archer's own early political career in the British House of Commons, and the fictional characters interact with actual political figures from the UK and elsewhere including Winston Churchill, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, Douglas Hurd, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Gary Hart and Queen Elizabeth II.
650 _aNOVEL
_zUNITED KINGDOM
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