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Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Phoenix Press)

Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Phoenix Press)

by Andrew Roberts (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, masterminded the campaigns, alliances, treaties and pageants which brought the British Empire to its zenith in terms of power and prestige. Prime Minister for all but four years between 1885 and 1902, it was he who co-ordinated the subtly interlocking policies over five continents and a quarter of the globe. In this comprehensive biography, written with complete access to Salisbury's papers at Hatfield House, Andrew Roberts explores every aspect of Lord Salisbury's phenomenal statesmanship, but also his eccentric family, his journalism, his distinctive philosophy of Toryism, his passion for scientific experiments and above all, his extraordinary, complex, but ultimately hugely attractive character.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 960
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0753810913
ISBN 13: 9780753810910
Book Overview: Andrew Roberts is an outstanding historian with a high media profile Received widespread critical acclaim on hardback publication Winner of the James Stern Silver Pen Prize for Non-Fiction and Joint Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History 'A great biography...It is splendid to have an up-to-date, fully finished and very well-written Life based on thorough research into the archives' Daily Telegraph 'This is a biography of quite unusual quality and insight, tautly organised yet flowering easily, with years of research behind it to reinforce its authority' Sunday Times

Author Bio
Andrew Roberts took a first in Modern History at Cambridge. He has been a professional historian since the publication of his life of Lord Halifax, The Holy Fox, in 1991, followed by Eminent Churchillians in 1994. He contributes regularly to the Sunday Telegraph. His Salisbury won the Wolfson History Prize in 2000 and his other books include Napoleon and Wellington; Hitler and Churchill; What Might Have Been (editor) and A History of the English Speaking People (2006).