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[An] enthralling biography...utterly absorbing. --The Atlantic Monthly Excellent...wry, urbane, and laced with a gentle, affectionate irony--exactly the right tone for a historical monument who really was monumental....Jenkins makes Gladstone's life intelligible, affecting...entertaining. --The Boston Sunday Globe A question that Jenkins's biography raises for the reader: why is it so much fun to read about Victorian politics?...An exhaustive, permanent biography, whose greatest virtue is its extraordinary worldliness. Jenkins has a bred-in-the-bone sense, almost unique among political biographers, of politics as improvisation, game, and even theatre. --The New Yorker
