Description
| Product ID: | 9781509868292 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Gladstone |
| Authors: | Author: Roy Jenkins |
| Page Count: | 720 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, European history, History, Political leaders and leadership, British & Irish history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Political leaders & leadership, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The definitive biography of William Ewart Gladstone. <p><b>Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.</b><br><br>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.<br><br><i>Gladstone</i>, 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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-10-04 |
