Gladstone: A Biography
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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.
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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