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Author: Richard Aldous
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393065707

The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli

The vicious political struggle that electrified Victorian society, brilliantly re-created for a new generation. Download The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. /strong>William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the nineteenth century. Their intense mutual hatred was both ideologically driven and deeply personal. Their vitriolic duels, carried out over decades, lend profound insight into the social and political currents that dominated Victorian England. To Disraeli-a legendary dandy descended from Sephardic Jews-his antagonist was an "unprincipled maniac" characterized by an "extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy, and superstition." For the conservative aristocrat Gladstone, his ri Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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