Melbourne A Biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
18.04.2013
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
428
Maße (L/B/H)
20.3/12.7/2.4 cm
Gewicht
608 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-571-30287-1
´I agree with Lord David [Cecil] that Melbourne as a friend or relative must have been one of the most delightful, wise and entertaining of men, but in public life I believe him also to have been ambitious, cynical and almost wholly without political principle. He was, in short, much less of a carefree amateur, much more of a politician.´ Philip Ziegler, from his Preface
First published in 1976, Philip Ziegler´s Melbourne drew on hitherto unused material and made an unprecedently searching assessment of the eminent Whig statesman of the 1830s/40s. It is extraordinary enough that Queen Victoria´s first Prime Minister should have been dragged through the courts by an aggrieved husband not once but twice. Yet Melbourne´s ´problematic´ personal life is only one reason why Ziegler, even-handed and scrupulous, was compelled to test the validity of Victoria´s famous final judgement that Melbourne was ´not a good or firm minister´.
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