Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics

by Marilyn Morris

A sophisticated analysis of changing views of political virtue in the 18th century and the origins of the modern dilemma over probity and suitability for high public office

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300208456
• ISBN13: 9780300208450
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"