Castlereagh: The Biography of a Statesman - Brossura

Bew, John

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ISBN 10: 0857388401 ISBN 13: 9780857388407

Casa editrice: Quercus Publishing, 2014

Riassunto

The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement By the author of the Orwell Prize-winning Citizen Clem Damned in coruscating verse by Shelley and Byron, his coffin hissed at during his funeral, Lord Castlereagh has one of the blackest reputations in British history. But as John Bew shows, this is but a half-drawn portrait. His gripping biography reveals a shy, inarticulate but passionate man; a towering political figure of implacable principles who redrew the map of Europe, fought a duel with a cabinet colleague and would tragically take his own life amid rumours of scandal and madness.

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Recensione:

John Bew has some heavy lifting to do in this consciously revisionist take. It is a great testament to his skills as a scholar and writer that he manages to do so with such aplomb . . . stellar (Tristram Hunt Daily Telegraph)

Wonderful . . . Bew's book is not only unparalleled in its size and sweep; it is also drenched in the Irish dimension, enriched by the author's own Ulster heritage, as well as the sagacity, scholarship and charm that make this a Life so nearly complete that it need never be written again (Ferdinand Mount Times Literary Supplement)

In a magisterial political portrait Bew brings Castlereagh and his world sharply back to life, and reassesses one of Britain's great forgotten statesmen (Dan Jones Daily Telegraph)

The best political biography of the year (Jonathan Sumption Spectator)

In this well-researched and judicious book, John Bew successfully readjusts the picture . . . this excellent biography tells a cautionary tale (Leslie Mitchell Literary Review)

This new biography by John Bew is a wonderful book, in its scope, its scholarship and the magisterial sweep of the narrative (Irish Independent)

Vast, well-researched biography . . . as Bew's solid, accomplished book shows, no foreign secretary has worker harder, wielded such influence or inspired such poetic hatreds (Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times)

The most brilliant and wise political biography I have read in a long while (Ferdinand Mount Wall St Journal)

Bew's achievement is to portray Castlereagh . . . convincingly and without any historical or bibliographical contortion (London Review of Books)

This is an excellent biography which has given us a far more realistic and nuanced view of this much maligned man (Contemporary Review)

Descrizione del libro:

A magisterial re-evaluation of Britain's greatest ever foreign secretary by the Orwell Prize-winning author of Citizen Clem

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• Editore: Quercus Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857388401
• ISBN 13: 9780857388407
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 768