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The Lion and the Unicorn - Gladstone vs. Disraeli (Paperback)
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The Lion and the Unicorn - Gladstone vs. Disraeli (Paperback)
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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 of Roy
Jenkins and A. N. Wilson, Richard Aldous has written an outstanding
political biography, giving us the first dual portrait of this
intense and momentous rivalry. Aldous's vivid narrative style by
turns powerful, witty, and stirring brings new life to the
Gladstone and Disraeli story and confirms a perennial truth: in
politics, everything is personal.
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