Lion and the Unicorn Gladstone vs. Disraeli

Name: Lion and the Unicorn Gladstone vs. Disraeli
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ISBN: 9780393349634

ISBN-10: 0393349632

ISBN-13: 9780393349634

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Aldous

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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…

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List price: $25.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English