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]]> male Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales 1920/11/11 2003/01/05 143628 0452283523 9780452283527 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172156463m/143628.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172156463s/143628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143628.Churchill 3.78 139 Marked by the author's wide experience writing on British leaders such as Balfour and Gladstone and his tenure as a member of Parliament, his book adds much to the vast library of works on Churchill. While acknowledging his subject's prickly nature, Jenkins credits Churchill for, among other things, recognizing far earlier than his peers the dangers of Hitler's regime. He praises Churchill for his leadership during the war years, especially at the outset, when England stood alone and in imminent danger of defeat. He also examines Churchill's struggle to forge political consensus to meet that desperate crisis, and he sheds new light on Churchill's postwar decline. --Gregory McNamee

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William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer’s art.]]> 83004 3.73 205 42 1996 1047272 0002177129 9780002177122 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1047272.Asquith 4.00 2 83004 3.73 205 42 1978 572164 0330493337 9780330493338 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175894973m/572164.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175894973s/572164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/572164.Twelve_Cities 5.00 1 83004 3.73 205 42 0 572157 0002175843 9780002175845 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/572157.Truman 2.50 2 83004 3.73 205 42 1986 7320145 0786160543 9780786160549 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7320145-churchill 0.0 0 83004 3.73 205 42 7039 3.75 16 3 2007 6241436 0786122846 9780786122844 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6241436.Churchill_A_Biography_Part_2 0.0 0 In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins's unparalleled command of Britain's political history and his own high-level government experience provide a nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject. Exceptional in its breadth of knowledge and distinguished by a penetrating intelligence, this is one of the finest political biographies of our time.

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