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...
Details
23 August 2012720 pages
9780330476119Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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justly and fairly with all the controversies of Gladstone’s life … It is a notable achievement and will not be easily superseded.The Times
Roy Jenkins has written many good books. This is his best. It is beyond praise.Vernon 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 wave.Claire 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 ways.John Grigg, Sunday Telegraph
