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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.
Dazzling in its ways, glittering with clever insights and provocative comparisons -- John Campbell Mail on Sunday Pearce shrewdly captured the problems involved in interpreting the career of a man who fell under the spell of his own speechifying -- E L Devlin Times Literary Supplement 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 The Independent This is an immensely readable book - informative, scholarly, but never dry -- Richard Ormrod The Tablet
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