Gladstone: God and Politics

by Richard Shannon

Book Overview

This important new single-volume study of W. E. Gladstone offers a readily accessible account of one of the most important and consequential political careers in modern British and Irish history. It is a story of how a statesman of almost superhuman energy and forcefulness of character strove to realise God's purposes, as he saw them, in the twisting and slippery paths of public service. Striving to realise God's purposes is the theme at the centre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847252036
• ISBN13: 9781847252036
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"