Macaulay - The Tragedy of Power

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On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire and the impact of ideas. His Macaulay is a Janus-faced master of the universe: a promin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robert E. Sullivan
Format: Printed Book
Published: Orient BlackSwan 2010
Subjects:
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Historians > Great Britain > Biography. Authors, English > 19th century > Biography. Statesmen > Great Britain > Biography. Great Britain > Politics and government > 1800-1837.
Table of Contents:
  • Heir
  • Star
  • Legislator
  • Sinister prophet
  • Statesman
  • Empire builder
  • The last ancient historian
  • The lion
  • Baron Macaulay of Rothley
  • Procrastinator
  • Praeceptor gentis anglorum
  • A broken heart
  • Envoi : immortal.

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