The Great Man by Edward Pearce
The year 1721 has many splendours, but there are also thirteen public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic and organised crime rampages through the streets. Only a generation earlier James II, suspected of conspiring to enforce Roman Catholicism and subordinate England to France, was driven out by the Whigs.
Edward Pearce, after a national newspaper career starting in 1977, still keeps his hand in with book reviews, obituaries and travel pieces. his early books include Contemporary Political Comment and Satire, The Senate of Lilliput, Hummingbirds and Hyenas, Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher, The Shooting Gallery, The Quiet Rise of John Major, Election Rides and Machiavelli's Children. However, for several years now he has concentrated on writing history. The Lost Leaders (about three near-Prime Ministers) was followed by Lines of Most Resistance (about English Resistance to Irish Home Rule), Denis Heaney (the authorised biography), Reform! (about the 1832 Act), and The Diaries of Charles Greville, both published in Pimlico. He lives in North Yorkshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224071819 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224071815 |
| Title | The Great Man |
| Author | Edward Pearce |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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