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Gladstone: A Biography
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Synopsis
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
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A splendid biography, which deals justly and fairly with all the controversies of Gladstone’s life … It is a notable achievement and will not be easily Times
Roy Jenkins has written many good books. This is his best. It is beyond Bogdanor, Evening Standard
Inspired by affection for his tremendous subject, the author has scaled the heights with panache … [Jenkins’s] evident delight in the man and his story carry the reader along as though on the crest of a Tomalin, Independent on Sunday
Jenkins is a master of irony … This helps to make the book enormous fun to read, while it is also enlightening in any number of Grigg, Sunday Telegraph
Books by Roy Jenkins
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GLADSTONE
A definitive, celebratory biography of the greatest 19th- century British political leader, by a distinguished 20th-century British politician. Despite living in different centuries, Roy Jenkins (Lord Jenkins of Hillhead) and William Gladstone () share many characteristics. Both men held powerful political positions. (Gladstone served four terms as prime minister of Britain.) Both men used their influence to split their own parties and drive them into the political wilderness. Both men published book after book while active in public life, a feat that appears to be beyond the ability of American politicians. (Imagine our surprise if, say, Bob Dole were to write a major biography of Teddy Roosevelt.) Like Gladstone, Jenkins (A Life at the Center, , etc.) believes in the centrality of politics to the life of the nation. An excellent introduction to the political history of Britain, his biography also contains a judicious examination of Gladstone's deep religious commitments and his complex obsession with prostitutes, pornography, and moral reform. Gladstone recorded the details of his life in a massive diary, dividing every day into quarter-hour intervals, and Jenkins uses this magnificent source&#;recently edited and published&#;to delve into the secrets of Gladston