Pitt the Elder by Edward Pearce
Opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain, are chased, caught and defeated. This work provides a portrait of William Pitt - a man who had close ties with the slave trade and who preached war and British supremacy on a world stage.
[A] close-knit account * Daily Express *
Pitt was the hero..He was, as Edward Pearce argues in this revisionist biography, the show business man of war * The Spectator *
[Pearce] constantly, often illuminatingly and sometimes wittily, draws parallels between the English politics of Pitt's time and more recent events or personalities -- Stephen Howe * The Independent *
Pearce enlivens the narrative with crisp characterisations of the figures on the stage * The Oldie *
This is an immensely readable book - informative, scholarly, but never dry * The Tablet *
Pitt was the hero..He was, as Edward Pearce argues in this revisionist biography, the show business man of war * The Spectator *
[Pearce] constantly, often illuminatingly and sometimes wittily, draws parallels between the English politics of Pitt's time and more recent events or personalities -- Stephen Howe * The Independent *
Pearce enlivens the narrative with crisp characterisations of the figures on the stage * The Oldie *
This is an immensely readable book - informative, scholarly, but never dry * The Tablet *
Edward Pearce is a political journalist and author. He has been a leader writer for the Daily Express, a Commons sketch writer and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph, a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Guardian, and sketch writer for the New Statesman. He also writes regularly for the Yorkshire Post, and was a panellist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze. He has written over 13 books, from The Senate of Lilliput (1983) to his most recent, The Great Man (2007), a life of Sir Robert Walpole.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847920119 |
| ISBN 10 | 184792011X |
| Title | Pitt the Elder |
| Author | Edward Pearce |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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