Balfour: Intellectual Statesman
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, GB, 1985
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United KingdomRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
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AN EX LIBRARY BOOK WITH TYPICAL LIBRARY MARKINGS. Slightly cocked. Navy blue cloth with bold gold lettering to spine. Very good clean tight text throughout BUT front end paper is missing and text edges a bit browned / spotted. Two red crayon "50p" annotations on half title. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
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- Title
- Balfour: Intellectual Statesman
- Author
- Mackay, Ruddock Finlay
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, GB
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- VG-
- Dust jacket
- nrVG DW
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0192122452
- ISBN 13
- 9780192122452
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
This biography charts the development of a remarkable debater who rose, despite lingering backward glances at philosophy and the academic life, to be leader of the Unionist Party in 1902, and who, due to his unique qualities of mind and character, was restored to high office in war and peace after the apparent end of his political career in 1911.
It is not commonly recognized that Balfour held cabinet rank for longer than Winston Churchill, or Lord Liverpool, or Gladstone, or Lord Palmerston, or the younger Pitt. The number of years served on that level by the statesmen mentioned are: Balfour 27, Churchill 26, Liverpool 25, Gladstone 24, Palmerston 23, and Pitt 22. This count alone testifies to Balfour's calibre as a statesman. The unique character of his career is further emphasized by the fact that none of the others listed, having ended their prime-ministerial careers, came back, as it were, from the political dead to hold other high ministerial office.
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