A History of the English-Speaking Peoples out and then when Churchill was appointed Prime Minister. After the war ended in 1945, Churchill was busy, first writing his history of that conflict and then as Prime Minister again between 1951 and 1955, and so it was not until the late 1950s, when Churchill was in his early eighties, that he was able to finish the work. The later volumes were completed when Churchill was over eighty. A full one-third of the last volume was devoted to the military minutiae of the American Civil War. Social history, the agricultural revolution, and the industrial revolution hardly get a mention.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom usually presented with comparisons to the American Presidency. Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb define it as: "the development of increasing leadership power resources and autonomy within the party and the political executive respectively, and increasingly leadership-centered electoral processes".The classic view of Cabinet Government was laid out by Walter Bagehot in "The English Constitution" (1867) in which he described the Prime Minister as the primus‐inter‐pares ("first among equals"). This view was challenged in "The British Cabinet" by John P. Mackintosh, who instead used the terminology of "Prime Ministerial Government" to describe the British government. This transformation, according to Mackintosh primarily resulted