Gladstone, a Progress in Politics

by Peter Stansky

Book Overview

To restore Gladstone to his proper context in that world on the other side of the looking glass, the political world of 'old' or classical liberalism, to set forth what he hoped to achieve, how well he achieved it, and in what respects it was worth achieving---this is a difficult task. But Peter Stansky, in this finely perceptive study, has brilliantly succeeded....Professor Stansky is an expert in late Victorian liberalism. To meet him here as he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393000370
• ISBN13: 9780393000375
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.7"