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Gladstone

By Roy Jenkins

Gladstone Social Sciences

Gladstone

By Roy Jenkins

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Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year. William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. Gladstone, by historian and eminent politician Roy Jenkins, is a full and deep portrait of a complicated man, offering a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer's art.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
720
Release Date:
2018-10-04
Publication Date:
2018-10-04
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509868291
ISBN13:
9781509868292
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
523 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
52 cm
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