The Great Rivalry: Gladstone & Disraeli by Leonard, Dick

The Great Rivalry: Gladstone & Disraeli (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848859258)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Great Rivalry: Gladstone & Disraeli by Leonard, Dick

The Great Rivalry: Gladstone & Disraeli

$61.00
The Great Rivalry: Gladstone & Disraeli by Leonard, Dick

The Great Rivalry: Gladstone & Disraeli

$61.00
Format: Hardcover
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Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone are without doubt the two most iconic figures of Victorian politics. Their distinctly different personalities and policies led to 28 years of bitter political rivalry. For the first time, this book provides the full story of their rivalry and its origins, comparing the upbringing, education and personalities of the two leaders, as well as their political careers. Dick Leonard considers the impact of religion on the two men, their contrasting oratorical skills, their attitudes to political and social reform, foreign affairs and imperialism as well as their relations with Queen Victoria. In their private lives he sheds new light on Gladstone's guilt-ridden obsession with 'reforming' prostitutes, and Disraeli's almost completely successful efforts to conceal the existence of two illegitimate children. Providing important new perspectives on the two towering political characters of the Victorian Age, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century British history and politics.

Author: Dick Leonard
ISBN-10: 1848859252
ISBN-13: 9781848859258
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10d

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By Dick Leonard
By Dick Leonard
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Dick Leonard is an historian, journalist and author and a former Labour MP. For many years he was Assistant Editor of The Economist, and headed their office in Brussels, where he was later also correspondent of The Observer. Her also worked for the BBC, and contributed regularly to leading newspapers across the world. His publications include The Economist Guide to the European Union, Elections in Britain, A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair; Nineteenth Century British Premiers: Pitt to Rosebery and Eighteenth Century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt.

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