| The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli Contributor(s): Aldous, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393349632 ISBN-13: 9780393349634 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: 941.081 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 402 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the nineteenth century. Their intense mutual hatred was both ideologically driven and deeply personal. Their vitriolic duels, carried out over decades, lend profound insight into the social and political currents that dominated Victorian England. To Disraeli--a legendary dandy descended from Sephardic Jews--his antagonist was an unprincipled maniac characterized by an extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy, and superstition. For the conservative aristocrat Gladstone, his rival was the Grand Corrupter, whose destruction he plotted day and night, week by week, month by month. In the tradition of Roy Jenkins and A. N. Wilson, Richard Aldous has written an outstanding political biography, giving us the first dual portrait of this intense and momentous rivalry. Aldous's vivid narrative style--by turns powerful, witty, and stirring--brings new life to the Gladstone and Disraeli story and confirms a perennial truth: in politics, everything is personal. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aldous, Richard: - Richard Aldous is a professor of history at Bard College, where he holds the Eugene Meyer Chair. He is the author and editor of eleven books and is a contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. Aldous's writing appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, and The American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Red Hook, New York. |