Gladstone: A Biography

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by Roy Jenkins


  JULIAN CRITCHLEY, Daily Express

  Former Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and President of the European Commission, Roy Jenkins is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and President of the Royal Society of Literature. Gladstone was the winner of the Whitbread Biography Award and Lord Jenkins was awarded the Wolfson History Prize 2001 for his contribution to historical writing.

  ALSO BY ROY JENKINS

  Mr Attlee: An Interim Biography

  Pursuit of Progress

  Mr Balfour’s Poodle

  Sir Charles Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy

  The Labour Case

  Asquith

  Essays and Speeches

  Afternoon on the Potomac?

  What Matters Now

  Nine Men of Power

  Partnership of Principle

  Truman

  Baldwin

  Twentieth-century Portraits

  European Diary

  A Life at the Centre

  Portraits and Miniatures

  The Chancellors

  Churchill

  Roosevelt

  Twelve Cities

  First published 1995 by Macmillan

  Corrected edition published 1996 by Papermac

  This edition published 2002 by Pan Books

  This electronic edition published 2012 by Pan Books

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  Table of Contents

  Title page

  Contents

  List of Illustrations

  Preface

  PART ONE: A TALENTED AND TORTURED YOUNG MAN 1809–1852

  1. A Liverpool Gentleman?

  2. A Grand Tour Ending at Newark

  3. A Clumsy Suitor

  4. Peel’s Apprentice

  5. Orator, Zealot and Debtor

  6. Mid-Century Frenzy

  7. Ladies of the Night

  8. The Tremendous Projectile

  PART TWO: A MIDDLE-AGED MID-VICTORIAN STATESMAN 1852–1868

  9. The Chancellor Who Made the Job

  10. The Decline and Fall of the Aberdeen Coalition

  11. Health and Wealth

  12. A Short Odyssey for a British Ulysses

  13. The Hostile Partnership with Palmerston

  14. God’s Vicar in the Treasury

  15. The People’s William

  16. Disraeli’s Foil

  PART THREE: THE FIRST PREMIERSHIP AND THE FIRST RETIREMENT 1868–1876

  17. ‘My Mission is to Pacify Ireland’

  18. A Commanding Prime Minister

  19. Irish Land and European War

  20. Sovereign and Prime Minister

  21. ‘Ever and Anon the Dark Rumbling of the Sea’

  22. Defeat and Retirement

  23. The Temporary Withdrawal

  PART FOUR: THE REBOUND INTO THE SECOND PREMIERSHIP 1876–1885

  24. ‘Of All the Bulgarian Horrors Perhaps the Greatest’

  25. Midlothian Beckons

  26. Victory, Where Are Thy Fruits?

  27. Gladstone Becomes the Grand Old Man

  28. The Cloud in the West Darkens

  29. The Third Reform Bill

  30. Murderer of Gordon?

  PART FIVE: IRELAND DOMINATES AND AGE WITHERS 1885–1898

  31. Slow Road to Damascus

  32. Schism and Failure

  33. ‘The Union – and Disunion – of Hearts’

  34. The Leaden Victory

  35. Last Exit to Hawarden

  36. The Closing of the Doors of the Senses

  References

  Select Bibliography

  Index

  Author biography

  Copyright page

 

 

 


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