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Macaulay : the tragedy of power / Robert E. Sullivan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sullivan, Robert E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Historians.
- Authors, English--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1800-1837.
- Great Britain.
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (625 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. Devoting his huge talents to gaining power - above all for England and its empire - made Macaulay's life a tragedy. Sullivan offers an unsurpassed study of an afflicted genius and a thoughtful meditation on the modern ethics of power.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674054691
- 0674054695
- OCLC:
- 648760620
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