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Unruly Dog (Paperback)
Bertrand Russell, Edward Snowden, William Hague; Edited by Tony Simpson
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R189
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William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was
both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the
slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising
conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful
tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process
which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised.
Indeed, he succeeded in rallying to his cause the support in the
Commons Debates of some the finest orators in Parliament, having
become one of the most respected speakers of those times. Hague
examines twenty three crucial years in British political life
during which Wilberforce met characters as varied as Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette, Tsar Alexander of Russia, and the one year old
future Queen Victoria who used to play at his feet. He was friend
and confidant of Pitt, Spencer Perceval and George Canning. He saw
these figures raised up or destroyed in twenty three years of war
and revolution. Hague presents us with a man who teemed with
contradictions: he took up a long list of humanitarian causes, yet
on his home turf would show himself to be a firm supporter of the
instincts, interests and conservatism of the Yorkshire freeholders
who sent him to Parliament. William Hague's masterful study of this
remarkable and pivotal figure in British politics brings to life
the great triumphs and shattering disappointments he experienced in
his campaign against the slave trade, and shows how immense
economic, social and political forces came to join together under
the tireless persistence of this unique man.
A lively, authoritative biography of one of the towering figures in
British history who became Prime Minister at the age of
twenty-four, written by the youngest-ever leader of the Tory Party.
Prime Minister in 1783 deeply underestimated and completely
beleaguered. Yet he annihilated his opponents in the General
Election the following year and dominated the governing of Britain
for twenty-two years, nearly nineteen of them as Prime Minister. No
British politician since then has exercised such supremacy for so
long. brought about the union with Ireland, and directed, and was
ultimately consumed by], the years of debilitating war with France.
Domestic crises included unrest in Ireland, deep division in the
royal family, the madness of the King and a full-scale naval
mutiny. He enjoyed huge success, yet died at the nadir of his
fortunes, struggling to maintain a government beset by a thin
majority at home and military disaster abroad; he worked, worried
and drank himself to death.Finally, his story is told with the
drama, wit and authority it deserves
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