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Authors: Roy Jenkins
Tags: #History, #Politics, #Non-Fiction, #Biography
Gladstone: A Biography (140 page)
The Gladstones on one of their last drives.
GLADSTONE
‘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.’
J
OHN
G
RIGG
,
Sunday Telegraph
‘Deliciously spiced with mordant wit, Gladstone can be read for sheer pleasure. But it is the wisdom as well as the wit that ensures this biography will live.’
P
ROFESSOR
J. J. L
EE
of Cork University,
Guardian
‘This biography matches one of Gladstone’s own towering performances.’
A
NTHONY
H
OWARD
,
Sunday Times
‘The combination of author and subject makes Roy Jenkins’s Gladstone irresistible . . . His biography is all you need to know about Gladstone including the things
you never dared ask.’
R
OY
H
ATTERSLEY
,
Independent
‘Roy Jenkins has written the definitive biography of William Ewart Gladstone, the “Grand Old Man” of Victorian politics. Jenkins is a consummate biographer . .
.
Gladstone
is his
chef-d’œuvre
.’
J
ULIAN
C
RITCHLEY
,
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.
A
LSO BY
R
OY
J
ENKINS
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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Copyright © Roy Jenkins 1995
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