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Title: Gladstone
Author: JENKINS ROY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 09/10/2018
Imprint: PAN MACMILLAN
Price: $32.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
<b>Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.</b>
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.
<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.
ISBN: 9781509868292
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 720